I worked from home as I was still feeling pretty sick. Took a couple naps. Went to Southern Hills for awhile and started to feel better being out in the sun and getting some exercise. I started off skating pretty bad, skated ok for awhile, then back to bad. The ledges did not grind very well as the heat had evaporated most of the wax and what was left was just liquid on a crusty edge. I tried some lines. One was switch noseslide (the John Brandow way) to forward, treflip, kick back tail on the curb. Got remotely close. Also ollied the 2 stair from the crack and did a front noseslide to forward (so rare). Tried to ollie up onto the bench in the back and back 180 off, but I could not get onto it. Bummed me out. Then tried front 180 on the sidewalk, halfcab flip into the handicap ramp then ollie onto a bench and ollie off past a crack. Couldn’t get the ollie onto the bench. Finally managed solo, but man what a bummer. I guess the one downfall I’ve found so far with the smaller setup is ollie’ing up stuff. Doh. In the small board defense though at one point I tried a switch flip and almost landed it. So close.

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