skate journal: solo session near Fed Ex (March 16, 2010)
Posted in Skate Journal on March 17th, 2010 by corpoAfter a super busy day at work followed by more business unloading new decks and packaging up orders I brought a box to FedEx off Baseline around 9:30 pm. I felt like skating and it was pretty warm out still so I cruised around there for awhile warming up. Had fun ollieing parking blocks for awhile then found that they had taken out part of the Ace Hardware building and there was a super smooth foundation waiting to be skated. There was a low curb in the middle of it so one way I would try to ollie over the curb and manual to the parking lot. Coming the other way I would ollie a gap into it then do a trick over the curb. I ended up having a blast and falling a lot. I managed a couple ollies over the curb to mannys and even got a nose manny version. Was hyped on those because the manny after was about 30 feet long which is a lot for me. I tried a few kickflip mannies over the curb too, but it was kinda dark and I kept landing primo. Coming the other way the gap in was kind of awkward due to rough asphalt, but it made it fun too. I ollied into the foundation and kickflipped over the curb a few times. Then the goal became to b/s flip it which I did in a few tries, but it was too bad even for my low standards. So I tried again and it took awhile. It doesn’t help that I made the gap into the foundation taller with a peice of foam which tired me out having to ollie higher each time. It was fun though. I eventually got an ok one, then made the foam taller to try and ollie it. First try I slammed and broke my work phone. Oops! Ha. Second try I got it and left for my car which was a fun speed ride in front of Wild Oats ollieing sidewalk cracks away. Fun!