skate journal: solo campus line attempt board break (Dec 28, 2010)
After a pretty chill day at work I was productive at home for awhile. The kids were having fun with friends so I went skating. It was pretty chilly out, but the forecast calls for snow and frigid temps so it might be the last street skating day for awhile. I chose campus with no real spots in mind other then to maybe manual off the three stair like I did once before after 50 tries. After a little parking garage hill bomb I ended up at the three stair and kinda cruised around ollieing on the banked curb, doing kickflips and ollieing up/off curbs. I started trying the manual, but wasn’t feeling it quite yet. I wanted to line out to it and found a weird rock to ollie over (which can be seen in the background by the fire hydrant with the board sitting on it of this beautiful Monico 50 50. The ollie wasn’t easy, especially for me. The approach was downhill and you had to turn at the last minute to get the right angle. Excuses excuses, but I did mange to eventually ollie it a few times and it was probably a little taller then a normal ledge so I felt good about it. I was getting close to the manual drop and almost put it down. I tried making myself go a little faster each time and a few of the ollies felt good. But then I went landed pretty far back on probably the biggest ollie and cracked the tail real bad. I tried to follow it up with the manual, but it barely got up the curb and was bouncing as I was in manual. DOH. I tried a few with the board backwards, but wasn’t feeling it. I went to leave, but bombed the parking garage hill a couple times again trying to get some powerslides, but the concrete was too grippy. I then went into nollie/switch flip poses for about 15 minutes. I did commit to both, but never landed either. The switch flips were surprisingly close a few times. I went home and setup a new “In A Jar” deck.
