re: anybody every skate the park in athens

My days getting that gnarly are done, sadly. I was diagnosed with MS about three years ago. I didn't realize how bad it fricked with my equilibrium and mobility until I got on a skateboard again. Every drop in attempt has ended up in me really fricking myself up - the last time was on my buddy's mini ramp, which should've been easy because of the relatively easy slope, but it resulted in my eating shite face first, coming down on my arm, and breaking a rib (the second rib in as as many months). I'm starting to get up on coping and working on rocks and shite like that on some different spots in the park (the little mini in that roll-in spot and up on the curb at the top of the ramp), but mostly I just rip around and carve the whole park.

If you hang around there enough this summer you'll run into some of the kids that are seriously badass in that place - most of them have grown up skating it for the last 10 years. They'll show you some lines that are a lot of fun. I've learned a lot skating with them. Hopefully I'll be able to hit the park up some more this summer - haven't been down since March (I live in Rabun now). Mostly been skating my buddy's spot (the one with the skate park in his yard) and hitting spots around Brunswick, Fernandina Beach, and Jax (I'm down in that part of the country every other weekend). I've gotten to be friends with Marty and Laurie Ramos at Kona, so we're skating there as much as possible - they're doing a bunch of renovations right now, which is cool, and that snake run is just about the most fun you can have on a board.