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Danny Mueller's avatar

Nollie flip blunt to fakie? My god.

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Cole Nowicki's avatar

🙏🙏🙏

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Michael Edward's avatar

Cole, this was fantastic!

You certainly have a way with words.

I absolutely loved the line — “There will always be the axle-stall-stalefish-front-wheel-grab I invented at nine years old to hold close to my heart.” —- that was so funny and relatable.

I really can’t express how much I enjoyed this piece. Bravo sir.

And bravo on the Nollie flip blunt as well.

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Cole Nowicki's avatar

Thank you for the kind words, Michael! I always appreciate you reading the thing :)

Maybe I should consider bringing the ol' axle-stall-stalefish-front-wheel-grab out of retirement...

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Michael Edward's avatar

Haha, maybe, it certainly is a banger.

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quasiotter / daniel's avatar

you did that smoothly!

and wow, you're cute~

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Cole Nowicki's avatar

haha, thx!

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Christian Näthler's avatar

Reminds me of my hometown skatepark in Midland, Ontario. Opened around the same time. Big nostalgia trigger, which in any form can make one’s eyes well.

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Cole Nowicki's avatar

Shoutout to all of our special/crappy hometown parks

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Andy Vanderbilt's avatar

I concussed myself on my first drop in attempt on a 5 ft prefab mini in Daly City in 7th grade...that whole park was actually pretty good considering prefab standards... this was such a nice read and DAMN that’s a nice make so glad you got it before the park disappears.

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Cole Nowicki's avatar

Thanks for reading and the kind words, Andy!

Oof, that first drop-in was not kind to us.

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