skate journal: Finally ollied my trash can (Sept 3, 2010)
Was totally gonna take a sick day as I didn’t think I had much desire to skate and I was super sore. It’s approaching a month of skating every day. Anyways I got home from work and the house was all to myself with a new Thermals record waiting for me. I cranked it up, lounged for awhile and drifted in and out of sleep. There was some light left in the night and I thought it would be a sin to not go skate at least a bit since it was so nice outside. I grabbed my board rolled to the street and popped an ollie that actually felt good. I a few no complies later and I noticed our trash can hadn’t been put away yet. I’ve wanted to ollie it forever so I set it down and posed a couple ollies over it before landing one with a bonk. Pretty hyped on that, but wanting more I kept going back to setup and would nollie a pine cone. Even that felt fun. A few tries later I put down a clean ollie that felt great.