skate journal: lame day at work, lame skating, lame journal (Jan 17, 2011)
Posted in Skate Journal on January 19th, 2011 by corpoHad one of those long, boring and draining days at work which left me wondering what I’m doing wasting my life away. After a nice dinner with the family I sat on the couch and listened to Green Mind on vinyl. It sounded great. It was super nice out so I decided to go skate and campus seemed fun. When I got there I set the board down and didn’t even go for that extra initial push to have a fun cruise down the hill to get things started. I knew I was doomed at that point. I started in the new art building where I did a couple kickflips before going to the nearby 3 stair and did a little line to it. Fakie ollie, sw 180, ollie the 3. Feeling a bit more warmed up I ended up at the parking lot west of the 14 which had just been repaved. Sick! They got rid of the jersey barrier that ruined the flat gap so I tried to ollie that. For some reason my flat gap ollies have gone to total shit and I couldn’t do it. I got so mad. So mad. My head wasn’t into skating. Argh. I kept at it for awhile. Coming down the hill I started trying flatground kickflip or pop shove, a speedy manny then ollie the little double curb thing near the main street. I actually did a couple of those and felt good for a second. Some of the mannies were fast enough that I was a bit scared to even ollie up the curb. Cool. But the stupid flat gap ollie kept eluding me. After I bailed that I would pick up my board and push at the tall ledge surrounding the parking lot and pose ollies over it. A couple felt remotely possible which would be huge for me. Eventually I did the whole line. Front shove on flat, manny, ollie, turn around, ollie the flat gap. I wasn’t even stoked. I just picked up my board and walked to the car. Ugh.