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!