skate journal: solo valmont wearing off the rust (Dec 17, 2013)
Was on my way to Longmont to meet Dave when he texted saying he couldn’t skate. So just pulled off at Valmont and skated there. I started off so rusty. Ollie’ing up curbs felt hard. I stuck with it though and after a few noseslides and front 50s on the low part I started to feel better. For whatever reason I got it into my head to relearn nollie varial flips. I probably landed on 20 of them. Some of them even faster then lots of my tricks. They felt great, I just didn’t ride away from any. Doh! Made myself ollie off the loading dock which was harder then normal due to their being a puddle after making me go about 1/2 mph faster then normal to clear it. Ledge tricks were whatever. Front 50s on the low part were my fav. Got a couple crooks, one back 50, a switch front nose that I was pretty excited about. Did lots of flatground, defeated on 3 flips though. I started to feel cold at the end so I left. Felt good to burn some of the rust off.