skate journal: short solo campus session in the cold (May 12, 2014)
Posted in Skate Journal on May 13th, 2014 by corpoShortly after dinner on what will hopefully be the last cold night (~40 degrees) I headed to campus to skate for a bit. The students are gone! Normally when the students are gone and I’m skating campus after dinner when it’s still light out it’s warm. But no, there was still snow in some grassy areas and I had three layers on and a beanie. Anyways, I had thought of the area above because of a session awhile ago when there was some jersey barriers. The barriers were gone though. I popped a few ollies on the way to the spot that didn’t get off the ground. Great. I felt good, but just couldn’t ollie apparently. I blame the cold. But I got to this area and ended up having fun trying a couple lines. The first one was just ollie onto the platform (far right behind the upright parking gate), ollie off, nose manny the little manny pad, lap over lipslide a parking block then a manual the long way. Tried to do some flatground after that, but my legs were shot. Next line was a front 50 on the somewhat waxed part of the ledge, heelflip on flat (I rarely landed them), manny the manny pad, ollie up onto the platform (coming from the left is so much taller), then back 180 off. I only got to the back 180 once and landed on it, but didn’t rotate enough. A cop walked by and gave me a mean look at this point. I tried a few more times, but ended up getting tired and the temperature had dropped and it was snowing a little so I left. In between heelflip bails I would try slappy crooks on the waxed part of the ledge and got into a couple, but not enough to ride away. I had fun, it was cold, but I skated and actually listened to my body saying it was done rather then stubbornly continuing.