Session: February 9th 2019

The session from last Saturday with Mike Talecki, Nate Brown, Jason Liette, and Danny Mcquate.

Mike Talecki told me to come by around 11ish at his place. Mike is the one person who lives closest to me and who happens to skate. You would think we would run into each other more often.

Anyways, So I mentioned to him that I got a new bike that past Friday.

So I rode my new bike over to his house.  
I had a bunch of trouble loading up my skates while riding my bike. It felt funny but maybe I just need a bike lock and ride it here and there to work. Now that would be fucking rad.

So anyways. I rode my bike over. I see Mikey and surprisingly, Nate Brown. Mikey told me there was skating involved but he did not mention who would be in attendance. I was pretty internally pumped to skate with Nate. I did not say it but you know…. Why spoil what your experiencing. Or something like that.

So, We drove to a parking lot near 52^nd street and Washington. The guys mentioned that that Dan was coming out to meet with us. I was under the impression that It was Dan Howard but I was surprised to find out it was Danny Mcquate. So we strapped up and honestly had nowhere specific to head towards. We started trekking west but stopped on the first light and started to head south on this industrial road.

I felt bad for the guys because I was the only guy riding 80 mm sized wheels. I mean Mikey rides flat with his Aeon Skates, Oh and also Jason as well but Nate and Mcquate were trekking on anti rockered frame set ups. So we reached a dead end, heading down this industrial looking rode. Nate suggested we take this cement canal path…. So we went.

We skated around and trekked down this canal path. It did not look finished yet but it was new and mysterious. We hit a dead end and jumped on a crummy asphalt road and trekked back to Washington Street. We were already getting closer to Tempe.

We made it to the cross streets of Washington and Priest.

We skated over to these ledges and the guys did there thing.  

We got kicked out and it was funny. This security guard was no joke.

We skated over across the street to some different part of this business complex and we stumbled across this sweet drop in to sidewalk gap that I tried.

We went back over across the street and skated to the SRP building. Nate did a few grinds on a loading dock ledge before being kicked out. We then went back to the original building but behind it and Nate skated this perfect ledge. We then trekked back over to the front end portion of the SRP building and Mikey did some sweet lines over a triple set.

We trekked back down to Priest and Washington. I began to get hungry so we stopped at a strip mall to get some food.

I jumped on the light rail while the guys trekked back on the skates. and ended up going all of the way to 44^th street. So I had to back track a bit towards them. They were skating under this bridge, specifically the bank.

We slowly trekked back. A few of us got on top of the castle roll ledge/walls and were filling them out.

We cut thru this gym or work out area for guys and gals who are handicapped. We saw a whole window of guys having lunch. I gave my peace signs and my heart began to ache. I feel like my fucking able bodied self should just keep working out because some of these doods I saw wheel chair bound does not fuckin stop them. It is fucking inspiring, Rollerblading / Inline skating is what dreams are made of.

So we got back to the cars, loaded up and went back to Mikey’s place.

When we got there. We chilled for a bit and then walked over to a bar.

Jason departed so he can go hiking, so it was Nate, Mikey, Mcquate and myself hanging for a bit.

We talked about this, that and a little bit about skating. After a few slams of some orange juice. I was ready to call it a day. We walked back. I got my stuff and rode home on my bike.

The day was fun overall day. Days like these can not be repeated.