skate journal: new board and campus fun with fuzz and carleigh (april 21, 2012)
Had a long Saturday. Woke up at 5AM for some reason. Worked on Four for a long time. Waited in line to buy The Electronic Anthology Project Of Dinosaur Jr on purple vinyl (well worth the wait). Ran boards to Community. Brought Ollie to flag football practice (he couldn’t do anything though because of his stitches). Then took a nap and set up a new board while watching the new Transworld video. Busenitz part is bonkers! My new griptape (above) is inspired by one of the funniest things I’ve seen on the internet:
Yes, I am easily entertained.
I also setup some new wheels. Although I kept my old ceramics much to Fuzz’s disapproval. Around the time it got dark Fuzz, Carleigh and I rolled to campus. We parked by the 14 to get warmed up on the little ledge/curb thing in the parking lot. Ha. It ended up being a rad spot to warm up. Carleigh started ollieing off it and put down an ollie over the manhole at one point. Still can’t believe Fuzz did this years ago. Fuzz and I mostly dorked around doing stalls on the top trying to drop to stalls on the lower part. He did blunt dropped down to pivot on the curb. It was amazing. I got a nosestall down to crooks to fakie. That felt good too. I did some wallies up. So fun. Want to do it to manny sometime. Carleigh got ollies up and followed it up with front 180 down. Fuzz started doing chinese nollies off the crack and got me to do it after I bailed it a bunch of times. Being in the air seems to be the thing I’ve lost more than anything. Carleigh went on to do ollie up and steezy kickflip off. I tried to get her back with a kickflip up, but didn’t get close. Next up we went around a corner and found this new spot.
We did some silly stuff for a bit. Fuzz did a boneless thing over the rail and I tried to learn it with no luck. Carleigh bolted a heelflip which hyped up Fuzz to front board the rail, but he bailed it. We just had to tell him he had to buy beers if he missed it to encourage him to miss it again. Ha, he did get it though. Breaking his tail and rolling away with a grin on his face. So sick. I tried a couple, but didn’t do much more that scrape the rail with my board as I flung it toward the rail. Fuzz was done, but we went around the corner to see the other new spot.
Carleigh and I rolled in on this a few times. It’s just fun. I managed a manual between a couple cracks which was fun. Those two were pretty much done after that. We looked at my dream Jack spot and they thought he could do it (hint Jack hint). Then I kind of just skated around for awhile. Got a line of slowly ollieing onto a ledge and off, fastish cali grind, b/s flip. The funny part was pulling all the bark from the ground with me. That was the session. Super fun and maybe the first time I felt somewhat comfortable street skating the whole time. There was no point where I thought my body would give out. Awesome. We hung out after which was really fun too. Leslie and Liz joined. Lucy entertained. Electronic Dinosaur Jr is excellent. Good times.