skate journal: Back to the Fiercely Fabulous Flatground Fun Facility. Aka the research center (oct 29, 2013)
Posted in Skate Journal on October 30th, 2013 by corpoWent back to the research center because I just couldn’t stop thinking about how fun it was to do tricks down the mellow hill. I’m gonna start referring to it as the Fiercely Fabulous Flatground Fun Facility for a joke about my PJ nerdness. No, it’s not the same, but it gets me hyped in the same way. It was late and cold (35). Even the first couple runs of 180s and ollies were fun. My legs didn’t feel as good as Sunday, but I still ended up having a decent time. After awhile I had a couple techer lines. 360 flip (both hands down it counts since it’s 35, I’m 40 and well, I’m by myself!), front 180 up the upper curb, halfcab flip on flat then crooks. Another one was heelflip then f/s flip (horribly done), halfcab flip, ollie up the curb, crooks. Gotta start doing more then crooks on this ledge! Fakie bigflip, pop shove, try to ollie at speed up the upper curb, back 50. Had several other flippers, but wasn’t feeling as good or consistent as Sunday. Did have an extra fun b/s flip. Tried front and back smiths on the ledge. Got into both. Kinda surprised I was able to get into back smith, but not sure I’d ever actually land it. Tried a bunch of switch varial flips when going up the hill and got kinda close. Wasn’t hyped at how much I struggled with fakie flip or fakie bigflips though. Either way it was fun and I like that the slight hill forces me at times to do a trick faster then I normally would.