skate journal: Steelyards (April 7)

Posted in Skate Journal on April 8th, 2009 by corpo

Pretty nice evening and I went out for what I thought would be a solo session at the Steelyards.  I had the new Thermals album loaded on my mp3 player and I was playing it pretty loud.  I thought it would be a mostly flip trick day, but my legs weren’t performing well and I kind 0f just tried to do difficult tricks like ollieing up a curb at speed.  After awhile I put an ash tray after the curb and tried to ollie it about 100 times.  I was just about to finally commit when the wind kicked in and messed with the speed.  Ugh.  I was at my car getting water and Nate called and showed up quickly.  I finally ollied it after a few more tries.  Yippee.  I should be able to ollie stuff like that quicker.  Either way though I’ve been working on my ollies and it felt good to get over something.  I was working on switch front 180 manuals and fakie bigspins up the curb when the fuzz rolled up and gave us the boot.  Doh.