skate journal: Red Curbs with Jake and 98% (Oct 18, 2010)
Another busy day at work. I stopped by Meta after work to get the new Habitat video and then home to eat and do the Null 3q taxes. The taxes went by quicker than I thought so I peeped a bit of the Habitat video before picking up Jake. Wow. Austin Gillete and Janoski had some amazing footage. It was rainy and felt like the first skate day in the 40s. But it ended up not feeling that cold and Dahr, Ray Ray, Scotty and Dan where there warming it up. Those dudes are fun to skate with and super positive. I was a little worried about how my knee, but it came through fine. Everyone was skating hard. Ray Ray was making back lips look really easy so about when they left I started trying them on the corner of a curb. A few tries in I did a couple weird sideways mannies and felt like back lip was possible. A few more tries later I put one down with a little squeek sound from the slide. So hyped! I’ve wanted to try back lips forever! Jake had done some really good front lips and got back bluntslides already before he got some on the back lip game too. He got a little squeeker too and we were hyped. Other things I was happy about. No comply 270 back tail, crooks on the ledge almost every try, being able to ollie, first try no comply over the rock, having fun. Jake and I played a game of SKATE. He got me with treflip and frontside flip, but I won it with fakie flip, halfcab flip, heelflip and b/s flip (he double or nothing’d the fakie flip and bailed it). At the end I tried a run for awhile of front tailslide, 360 flip, back smith a curb. I got a few tailslides which is good for me, some of the worst 3 flips ever and possibly a back smith. I’ll keep working on that one. As we left I told myself I need to man up and ollie the median finally. A few tries in I committed, came up a bit short and still somehow rode away from it. Good enough. So hyped to be able to skate for real again!