skate journal: Manny pad and some exploring (July 29, 2010)
Didn’t have a whole lot of energy left after all the swimming and roller coasters the day before. After work and playing some baseball with Ollie I went to the manny pad. There was a big puddle from the sprinkler system (good thing it was running considering how much it rained earlier) which ended up being fun to ollie as a setup for the manny pad. Oh yeah, I had a new deck and shoes. Another Null deck. Geez. And another set of the eS La Brea shoes. This time an ugly green. Everything felt pretty good though. I like when I’m sitting on a stack of decks for awhile and take the one off the bottom of the stack so it’s all flat. Love it. Anyways, I couldn’t get a manual to start, but I got nose mannies evertime. I did a little line of nose man, ollie the puddle, ollie up the curb to quick up the next curb. I was happy the quick up didn’t take 10 tries like last time. I also got that with a back 180 up eventually. I put a box in the puddle to ollie and managed to land every ollie I tried over it until the end of the session when it got dark. Even when I turned the box upright so it was taller. I really didn’t land much for mannies other than a manual front 180 out and nose manny front 180 out with a little back wheel bonk action. I got a few nollie front shoves up the curb, but couldn’t land in manual. Carleigh met up for a minute, but was stressing over moving her washer/dryer so she was too preoccupied to lay down a kickflip nose man nollie tre out. She left and I killed some time seeing if I was gonna get the washer/dryer by exploring around Sunflower grocery store area. I ended up in front of Rocky Mountain Kids and spent way too much time trying to get a quick ollie over a rug followed by an ollie up onto a planter then 180 off. There was like 4 cracks right in front of the planter then two more on top of it. After quite a few failed attempts I figured I was just being dumb and moved on. I cruised around a bit, but didn’t really do much. No wonder spots appeared over night or anything and Carleigh gave her nice washer/dryer away to someone else. I went home and set up some new wheels since it sucked having everything else new with old wheels. Am I officially a whiny bitch when it comes to decks/wheels/shoes yet? Man I hope so.