skate journal: campus with John and lots of freshman (Aug 18, 2010)
Skated with Ollie and Cooper behind the school for awhile. I kept it mellow doing some small ollies, 180s over a rug and ollie over a rug to long manual to big dog jumping at me scaring the crap out of me. Of course the dog owner doesn’t apologize. People with dogs really suck sometimes.Met up with John at Meta and cruised down the hill to the super mellow bank to mini curb. There was some freshman orientation dance thing going on blasting some horrible dance music in the background and lots of college girls in tiny skirts. Pretty funny. We started out with some basics and not before long there was a guy skating with us who asked if we were freshman. Ha! As if either of us even remotely looks under 30. Anyways, he kept asking questions about skating and we kept skating. John learned blunts to fakie and did a bunch of tricks like pivot fakie, blunt pivot fakie, almost front shove back nosepick, back tail shove and no comply bigspin tail. After I rattled off kickflip pivot pretty quick I tried kickflip nosepick forever and never got too close. At one point I did and accidental back lip (front revert out) followed by an accidental kick back smith. Ha this spot is awesome. I did get a first try kick back tail which felt great. I spent some time trying front smith kickflip out and got close, but no cigar.We then played a couple games of skate in the new area. The first game lasted forever though. We both struggled with our standard tricks. John was ahead for most of it, but I ended up winning it with tricks like 360 flip (I got john on a 3 flip wtf?), fakie bigflip, first try best one I’ve done nollie treflip, and it ended with a f/s halfcab flip war that I won. The next game was quicker. At one point I put down 3 tricks in a row, halfcab flip, heelflip, b/s flip and managed a nollie var flip too and took him out with the super tech fakie bigspin. Ha. I felt bad about that. Fun night and oh yeah it was my 200th day of skating this year. 100 more to go!