FDR Philadelphia

Bajeebas went on a mission to FDR on Saturday! It has been a while since I went there. Maybe ten years. Since the last time I went they built a new section on the bowl including a huge keyhole and a separate pool. This strongly influences my desire to live in Philly. That park has everything I like to skate. Vert ramp, Mini ramp, an extensive bowl, and a seperate pool. The place is gnarly! I spent most of my visit this time on the vert ramp. There was a pretty good session going so I eagerly joined in. Wanna get more comfortable on really high transition so I can get more deep-end tricks in the pool in the Mid Atlantic Skate Series (MASS). I was rolling fast as hell! Of course I was flying on my Defstick abec 7 bearings! In the middle of the sesh I got the worst snake bite ever! I went into a knee slide after trying some hair brained trick on the vert ramp and my board comes down from like twenty feet in the air and cracks me right at the base of my achilles tendon. It hurt a lot to skate but I kept rolling because I was so pumped. That probably agitated the thing more. Now, two day later it is bruised and swollen. I also have serious decrease in movement. Not to worry! With my supreme yogi jedi skills I should be skating aggressively again in a week tops.

When I skated the key hole I quickly gained applause from some groms who were flicking boogers nearby. When i skated the pool these dudes were starting from the shallow and cleared out. But I guess they didn't realize the magnitude cause they sat on the edge with their legs hanging over. When I had to bail cause they were in the way they said sorry, but didn't move their legs!! WTF. In the middle of the whole session this dude backs in pick-up truck into one of my favorite pockets in the bowl and just parks there. I didn't know what he was doing. I figured he was drunk and didn't know either. So I went back to the Vert ramp. When I came back to the bowl I realized he was patching up some holes in the concrete. So I settled down. Him and some other locals were drinking barley and smoking some questionable cigarettes at the top. They were very friendly and we bullshitted for a few. I finished off the day by taking my lady-friend to the best sushi place in Philly, Morimoto. Then some hip-hop dancing at club Fluid. It's hard to drive home to baltimore at 2 am, after skating all day, dancing, and drinking straight Jameson.

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