skate journal: solo cold weather campus board breaker (Oct 27, 2010)
Posted in Skate Journal on October 28th, 2010 by corpoTemperature wise it was colder out then yesterday, but without the wind it didn’t feel too bad. I pulled out the ol’ Null thermal for the first time and was layered up good for the cold. I cruised around for a bit and ended up at one of the new buildings that John and I sometimes play SKATE at. Maybe I should start paying attention to building names. To get my feet warmed up I did a few flatground tricks. 180s, shoves, kickflips, nothing much, just enough to get the blood flowing. On the way out I noticed a 3 stair I hadn’t seen before. I did a little line up to it with fakie ollie a crack, switch 180 a crack, front 180 down the stairs. Wowsers. On top of the 3 stair is a ledge with another ledge to ollie over which I attempted to pose an ollie over, but was not even capable of posing the ollie over.All day I had been thinking of this new spot with a narrow path to ollie a little ledge. I headed there. On the way I saw quite possibly the shortest skirt I have ever seen on a totally smoking college girl. That was distracting. A hill bomb later I ended up at the spot. It wasn’t as great as I’d remembered, but whatever. I took like 30 tries trying to get a pop shove on this narrow path to setup for a kickflip, but it didn’t happen. The path is surrounded by bricks so you can go off the path and your ok, but I’m a perfectionist (clearly, just look at my style). I gave up on the shove, started ollie’ing a little two stair first instead then doing a kickflip on the path. When I didn’t land perfect in the path I would turn around. So this means every try until the last try so I finally go to ollie the gap and it’s weirder then it looks. Narrow, downhill, sideways approach. I clipped the ledge and bailed. But I felt good and wanted it next try, I go to grab my board and it’s folded in a V. Shit! I guess that’s what I get for skating a totally cracked board when I have tons of new boards at my house. Did I mention I saw the shortest skirt I’ve ever seen? Wow. Calm down Fuzz.