After a very long drive down from the mountains involving somehow avoiding a muliple car pile up due to ice and then carving pumpkins I escaped for a bit to get some skate on.  Went to Southern Hills as it’s close and such a good spot.  The weather was super nice.  Neil said he’d meet me after awhile.  I haven’t had a couple days off skating in awhile and my legs were still sore so I was real rusty.  I like trying lines there and this time I tried to include more than just the ledges.  After a couple basic ones I had a decent one for me.  Front board, ollie up the 2, kickflip into the bank, noseslide fakie.  Back crooks the picnic bench, noseslide to fakie the bench, halfcab noseslide (horrible) another bench.  Front 50, front 180 up the 2, f/s halfcab into the bank, ollie onto a bench, ollie off.  Neat.  Neil showed up and cruised around too.  Like me he didn’t seem overly motivated.  For awhile I tried another run of fakie bigspin into the bank, fakie flip on flat, then fakie nosegrind a ledge.  Never got close to the fakie nosegrind.  At the end I started trying the hardest trick for me.  Ollies.  I wanted to ollie up and then ollie a gap, but I never did.  I could barely ollie up a bench with speed and survive.  Ugh.  Not my favorite session.  I left, stopped at a gas station and saw someone skate by with a “All You Need Is Null” t-shirt.  Awesome.  Then it was trick ‘or treat time with the kids.  Fun!

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