Woke up at 6 am. India is sick so she wasn’t getting up any time soon and I had time to go skate if I wanted to. So I went to check out this nearby little park. It was what one would expect, but the concrete is kinda rough. I felt like skating the ledge and flatground, but since it was 7am it wasn’t easy. The first few front 50 attempts were sketchy. There were a couple other boxes people had brought too. Tried b/s nosegrind across a really small one, but failed. Got a few ledge tricks. Noseslide, noseslide fakie, halfcab noseslide, crooks, back 50 (worst one ever done), front 50, front 50 front 180 out, front 50 shove, front 5-0, front 50 to front board, almost front 50 kickflip out. Tried to ollie a middle sized ledge that was there and failed. Got an ollie onto the ledge and noseslide the taller ledge off. Manualled the main ledge with a tiny tilt. Flatground went ok. Got a treflip or two. Halfcab flip, etc. Not liking my setup currently. Mostly I just hate how large my wheels feel which is pretty pathetic considering they are only 52s.

Went to campus after hanging with the families all day.  Was tired and felt weird being solo on a nearly vacant campus.  I started by the student center where I saw this amazing view. 

I walked up a hill and was surprised to find this.  I warmed up with a line of ollie down a three stair, kickflip on flat, noseslide the ledge.  Fun.  I was still feeling weird, no one was around.  I sucked at front 50s and the ledge didn’t grind as good as it looks.  For a few crooks.  Tried a line of front 50 then, treflip on flat the ollie up the three.  But never got the tre.  Thought I saw a cop coming so I skated off.

Found this next.  I seem to remember skating this about 10 years ago when my brother first moved back to Wisconsin.  There is a huge crack and weird gutter in front of it so I couldn’t just get on it. So I tried from the second stair going sideways.  Took awhile but I eventually got a front 50 coming out before the stair on the last stair.  Grinding granite is so fun. Then I went for back 50.  Even though I normally take a huge angle into back 50s this was weird.  Kinda got a back 50 and moved on to one of the spots I knew I would skate.

Pretty darn dark.

Looks bright with the flash on.

This bench has been there since the first time I skated in Madison.  It’s not lit well.  The drop on the other side is kinda weird.  Again, no one was around so it was weird.  I skated it for awhile and got some basic.  Boardslide, noseslide, noseslide fakie, crooks, front 50, front 50 180, front 50 shove, front 5-0, halfcab noseslide, tried back 50, but gave up on it. 

I walked by my car and was super tired and almost left.  But I was near this spot and wanted to skate it.  Messed around for a bit then settled on a line that took awhile.  Ollie up the curb, ollie up the two (going fast for me), treflip on flat then ollie the three.  Treflips weren’t working but when I finally got it it felt great.  Then I ollied the rock off the two stair, got booted and left.

Glad I got out.  Could have gone without running into spiderwebs everywhere I went, but if well.