Sunday the 15th. Per's parents had originally planned to come to Gothenburg this weekend. We would have been going over to Per's brother's for lunch. Sadly our niece, Kajsa, got strep throat so all that got cancelled. We're trying to reschedule.
So instead we puttered around the apartment, went for a walk by Red Stone, and then went skating at Bunkeberget. I headed out an hour before Per to catch the last hour of Women's Skate. It was LOVELY! It was pretty empty by the time I showed up, and I got to putter around the big bowl/vert ramp by myself for a while. I also met some ladies: a beginner, a roller blader, and a woman I met last summer at Actionpark. Good conversations and fun skating! I had a really good time.
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| The outside of Bunkeberget |
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| It's crazy that you go through this door and beneath the mountain lies a gigantic skate park!!! |
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| The times for Tjejskate (women's skate) are off, but the time they have for it now is still a four hour slot. Four hours just for women! The session was about half adults and half young girls. Parents were aloud in so there was a scattering of dads, but also some moms helping their daughters. Such a cool scene. |
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| "We Do It Together" This little publication is put out by the Swedish Skateboard organization. I only saw it right as we were leaving, so I didn't get a chance to read it yet, but it looks really cool. I worked on breaking out of my comfort zone in the big bowl. I dropped in from the second highest part. There's a pool coping side and a steel coping side. I decided to start with pool coping, and almost crashed the first two times. But I didn't let myself get so scared I stopped. I kept at it. It was just a matter of leaning forward more aggressively, so I just did that. And at the end of the session I accidentally did a little frontside slide! So I worked on those a bit more. Maybe when I come home I'll be able to frontside slide in the full pipe! |
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