skate journal: solo mission at Brian’s bush ollie spot (Dec 31, 2009)

Last day of 2009.  Got off work early and it was somewhat nice out, but snowy at most spots.  I stopped off at the spot where Brian ollied the big bush and ended up staying for a couple hours.  I had my mp3 player going on shuffle and that worked for awhile.I dorked around for awhile getting warmed up.  I wanted to do the smaller gap near the bush ollie, but there was snow in the landing.  I posed the big one a couple times, but never came close to committing.  I found a snow gap off a sidewalk that I ended up using to try and start a line.  The gap was about 5 feet long off a crack ridden sidewalk with a short setup.  It didn’t take me as long to commit to it as I thought it would and it ended up being really fun.  I would ollie it, ollie up a curb, front 180 off a curb, f/s halfcab flip and then manual this weird metal grated manny pad.  I never got all of them.  I got to the manny though.  Another run I was trying was kickflip up a curb, back 180 off over a tiny snow gap, halfcab flip then manny.  I got those 4.  They were bad though.  It took me forever to do the back 180 because I totally suck at that trick.  Before leaving I told myself to do 20 flat ground tricks.  It didn’t matter what.  I started with pop shove, did tricks like b/s flip, 360 flip, fakie 360 flip, fakie bigflip and ended it with no comply bigspin.  Fun session.  Skated really hard.  Goodbye 2009!