The first “cold” night of the year.  My thermometer said it was 38.  I was in a hoodie and a beanie and super amped up to skate.  That’s probably because I was solo with no chance of having to film.  John and Nate had considered meeting up, but neither did.  I had a complete blast.  I love fall skating, it is the best.  I started off slow and warmed up kinda slowly as usual.  I did back and front board popouts, back and front noseslides, my best halfcab noseslides ever, front 50s and a first try front 50 shove moving pretty fast.  I also tried and failed at front 5-0s, front 50 to front board, front 50 kickflip out, kickflip back 50 and some real lame attempts at kick back tails.  I was skating really hard though.  Trying flip tricks and coming really close to switch flips.  I tried a run from the far side with kickflip up the curb, ollie off the loading dock then front 180 fakie 50 180 out.  Got that.  Then did front 180 up the curb, halfcab flip, ollie off the dock, front 180 fakie 50 180 again.  Stoked on that line for sure.  I probably ollied off the loading dock 20 times.  It kinda weirded me out as I did it faster then normal and had no idea how to bail.  I committed everytime instead of bailing as usual.  Not sure that I could bail even if I wanted to as my reflexes in the air seem to be gone.  Anyways once I slammed pretty good due to wheel bite and I just sat in the cold air thinking about how amazingly awesome skateboarding is.  I wish I skated like this when we were out filming.  I think I needed a good solo session though, it’s been awhile.  Oh yeah, one of my favorite parts was just a first try ollie up onto the escalator pretty high up.  I didn’t wallie up at all and landed it clean.  Felt super good.

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