skate journal: quick afterwork suckfest (Nov 6, 2009)

I met Nate at his house after a pretty crappy day of work.  It was almost dark so we skated around the basketball court at his apartment’s for awhile.  I was skating absolutely horrible.  Kickflips seemed impossible.  No complys seemed impossible.  One of those days I guess.  We moved on and after ollieing up a 3 stair (Nate first try, me four tries ugh) ended up at a funny weird spot.  At an abandoned car dealership there was a waxed up curb going into a super mellow bank.  Basically imaging an 8 footlong “bank” that covers the height of two stairs.  Along one side was two curbs.  The top one starts at the level of the top so you can just cali grind onto it then go into the bank.  The curb dropped about halfway onto another curb.  Only the top one was waxed.  I could not get back cali back 180 out.  We did some funny tricks up since there is basically no risk.  I got a nosegrind and kind of a front Salad.  Nate did cool tricks like back 180 nosegrind.  Nate also got 5-0 cali shove out.  As we left I got cali dropped into manual.  All in all it was a depressing session for me.