On the board again...

Joe, who I have only briefly meet once: yeah, so I am going to this skatepark in Allentown, do you want to go. Me: Yes

Was there really any other answer to that question? I guess the exchange was actually a bit different more of him telling me how to get there as if I did not have a choice. I do have a choice... OK, I don't have a choice. What I have is a weakness for skateboarding. Given the opportunity I will choose skating over just about anything at all. Its really not a choice actually. Its more of a calling, or even a beckoning...

Anyway... So I went to PennSkates. It has two sections. The bigger section has the back and forth set up you might see in X-Games type environment. The problem here is that the bikers didn't respect the flow that the park could of had. They just sat on one of the main middle platforms so they could hit this huge jump area... There was a little bit of the back and forth that the skaters were on. It had two smaller ramps that you could ollie over and down and then hit the big wall ramp and come back to the starting. Then there was a big wooden pool, very intimidating for me... That's were the guy that invited me skated most... Anyway lets back up a bit.

When I first go there I had to buy a kingpin and in my crazy haste to put it together I put the baseplate on backwards... It felt like it took forever to get it together... So I tested the tightness by going over the small ramps a couple times and getting the truck back to what I liked. Then I heard some one calling my name and found that Joe had found me by looking for an older skater... shheshh

He was up at the pool. I avoided the flying bikes and got up to the pool deck. We said our Hi's and I took look at the pool and missed my kneepads alot. He said did you go back to the mini yet? I looked around. It's down in back he said. Thats were I will be. I went down this slopey slate thing and into the back room. It was a sad little area that looks like it had been rearanged to fit the mini ramp into. It looks nothing like the picture on there site. It may have been a fun spot with out the mini ramp but everything had been moved around and made an akward little spot in back of the mini were little kids could try to hit the grind bars but it was only like 20 feet worth. next to the mini they had a little back and forth set up with a small not-so-fun box in tthe middle.

The mini was nice. I could feel the couple kinks which through me a couple times at first. Also one side of the coping near the wall was sticking out more than other places and it killed me everytime I would go up to do a truck stall. Actually it would stop just about anybodys run once they hit it. I got right back in to the skating rythim though. HItting some nice smiths and jsut haveing a good time. The only other people skating the ramp were other in there late 20's and 30's.

It was a very good time Joe said he would let me know when they were going to go out and I was free to joing them anytime...