skate journal: solo cold weather campus board breaker (Oct 27, 2010)
Temperature 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.