Had the early shift at work so I got out at 3:30. It looks nice and warm in this photo, but it was only in the upper 30s. Which isn’t too bad in the sun, but still, they were forecasting 50s which would have felt way better. This was the spot that Jason and I would meet up and skate all the time several years ago. We even met Nate there. Jason had the longest, raddest front noseslides there. He also had the this rad line with a front board and a chinese nollie. I miss skating here with him. Anyways I was pretty tired and my warming up was really bad. I just did chinese nollies and nose stalls. Eventually I was able to muster up the courage to try kickflips and other tricks. I’ve always had troubles skating right after work, but today was even worse then normal. I kept at it though. I should have brought wax, but the side in the shade is still somewhat slick. That’s the only side I skated. I started with noseslides backside and frontside I ollied on and front 180’d off. It’s narrower up top then it looks because of the openings for the trees. I started landing a few flat ground tricks. I struggled with front 50s for awhile, but got a couple fun ones that felt raw since the concrete is so chunky and not waxed. If I would have waxed it I probably would have had better luck. Came close to back 50. Posed a bunch of kickflip back noseslides. Was almost out of time and and tried a treflip that put me on my butt in a puddle. I couldn’t leave on that note so did another ollie up front 180 off followed by a fakie flip and walked back to my car with some of my pride still intact.

Another snowy night. They are getting really old. Luckily I have a ramp in my garage and some friends that enjoy skateboarding. We got things going around 7:30 without John yet. Carleigh did most of her tricks with the exception of front d within the first couple runs. Fuzz was all over the place doing lots of tricks and killing it as usual. For whatever reason I wasn’t too inspired. I didn’t land much all night and never tried any new tricks. Before John showed we talked about how he would just show up and his first run would be amazing. I guess we jinxed him because he slammed pretty hard on the first wall with a rock ‘n roll attempt. Oops. ha. He did kill it though with his flat bottom reverts and Fuzz and I tried some variations too. I can’t remember what all was done, but it sure looked and felt silly. Near the end of the session Carleigh got the elusive front disaster. Fuzz got fakie back pivots to fakie. I got a front tail stall.