skate journal: I actually kind of skated. northGLENn (Dec 15, 2011)
I’ve been feeling a little better lately. Doing some jumping exercises and range of motion stuff. That and loading up on Turmeric which is supposed to be awesome for arthritis. I think the turmeric is helping. Anyways, it was really cold and my injury partner ditched me, but a solo session seemed in order anyways to mess around and get the skate feet going. When I got to northGLENn there was about 5 people skating in a train over and over. It was pretty funny. I was way more bundled up then them. It was only about 25 degrees so I don’t know how a t-shirt and a hoodie is enough. I started slow. I did manage to do a bad kickflip 3rd try. I got a few more, but they were all really bad with no pop. It’s a start. I managed a few noseslides on the main ledge. After awhile the train left and a couple other older dudes arrived (Tud and Mark) and we just kinda did whatever. Mostly skating the little mellow pyramid thing. I did some back 5-0s on it, lots of back 50s on the little qp by the kicker, some front slashes on the mini bank, took a long time to get front tail on the pyramid, some bad ollies into the mellow banks, mannies across the middle thing and a line I was hyped on of ride over the rainbow thing, back 50 the qp, back slash the bank with the big coping, manual the middle thing then front feeble on the pyramid. Neat. I did a few slow flatground pop shoves, fakie bigspin, back 180. It felt good to be skating but it’s crazy having to relearn everything. For awhile there was some intense throbbing pain in both feet/ankles. I thought I would have to stop, but it kind of went away. I got an axle stall on the bank in front of the hubba. At the end of the night I did a run where I mannied the pyramid into the bigger bank, went up the the qp turned around then mannied the pyramid the other way. Fun. Hyped to skate. Hope I can get back to my normal self at some point.