Morning Stiffness
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Well, Magrath days were a bit more special than ones in recnt memory. Once again our family sat near Rick's secret spot and cashed in on sugary confections. I even sat in the shade and had a good conversation with Rick and my BIL, Ryan. Later in the day we had a skateboard demo at the park. The guys from Boarderline in Leth. came out and put on a great show. Last year I was too intimidated to skate with those guys but this year I did even though I was super nervous. I pulled the four tricks I know, but still had a lot of fun. Skating with people better than you really motivates you to push it. I also felt like Dave and I skating in the demo kind of added to the legitimacy of our past time since it took such a bad rap when we were younger. Take that Magrathians! It was way cool to see Chris Jensen with a board in his hand and his kid skating. We talked to Todd B., Nathan and Morgan. Blake had also come over for a while a couple of days earlier. I especially enjoyed watching Roger Bruinsma and Dave skate the halfpipe. I really admire their ability and wish that I had stuck to it instead of giving up. One thing that I can't stop thinking about is this: about ten years ago I met this young ripper and kind of connected with him. Whenever I'd see him he'd invite me to come a skate with his friends, but I always found reasons to do something else. Anyway, flash forward a few years and he comes over to the ramp yesterday and is stoked about it. I told him he should come out and skate and he proceeds to give me a bunch of reasons that skating is now a risky business for him. But *then* he proceeds to come to the pipe that night and rip it and *then* comes to the demo the following day and rips it there. One more skater back to the fold. I don't know why stuff like that stokes me so much, but it does. |
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2 Comments:
Yeah, this was a decent Magrath days this year.
My head and neck are so burned, I can hardly stand it.
Roger was , well, Roger.
I talked to him for a bit before I left, and I think he might have remembered me - but maybe not. I do work right behind his store, and I thinkthe recollection was probably from that.
It does seem like there were a lot of the old skate-crowd in attendence. That's cool.
Seeing Blake was cool too. I hadn't seen him forever.
If we can expect that kind of crowd in the future, we should really try and plan something instead of just running into people and giveing the old, "We should get together later."
To summarize:
Fun.
Ouch.
Happy.
Wish I could have come. I was always pretty useless and lame at skating...never had much athletic ability in that area, but pumping on the ramp and riding around town was still kinda fun back in the day (and good excercise).
Also my son would have LOVED it! Last year at the demo he kept going back and wanting to watch some more, and some nice skater even let him borrow his board for a few minutes. He loves to practice various "tricks" on his board (which he insisted last Christmas MUST be a a FLIP board), even though he is a bit young to do anything much. He wrote a great little illustrated book on skateboarding for a school assignment that I think you guys would have been proud of, it was pretty cool.
Anyhow, maybe next year I can come...It was fun to see Becky, Monti, James and Amos a couple of weeks ago....sorry we missed you Rick and Darlene, we didn't know you were coming. A little dissappointed that Randy never showed...maybe next time.
Often Amy and Brittany are around south AB during Magrath Days, and I assume Shea is a regular in the summer? It would indeed be fun to make some sort of solid plan for a social gathering.
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