skate journal: windy campus with john and jake (dec 21, 2014)
In what looked like a nice morning I made plans for Jake and I to meet John at the long ledge on campus. I skated Rampy briefly to get warmed up. I felt really disoriented from my cold. Argh. Then right as Jake showed up the wind kicked up something fierce. I was really bummed on the wind and almost wanted to cancel skating. With my cold the wind would suck. But we still went for it. Initially at the ledge it was hard to skate due to leafs, branches and twigs flying by from the wind. But it ended up not being too bad all the time and we actually had some brief periods of calm. John may not know the difference between east and south, but when he found the ledge he immediately began ripping. At one point he did a marathon run ollieing the rounded 5 stair, a few flat ground basics, ollied off the ledge and ended with front 50. Him and Jake were ollieing up the ledge as high as they good. Jake managed to ollie up it at the highest point. So sick. John had some really good front 50s too. I was going through a weird streak. Some tricks were working great like varial flip off a curb first try, nose manuals, almost switch 180 manual, but tricks like ollies and front 50 were not going well.
John left and Jake and I went to the slappy ledge. I slammed super hard trying to do a ‘fast’ no comply 180 and messed up my wrist a little. It’s aight. I had a few not-much-grindage slappy back 50s. Jake did slappy bluntslides. Then we headed over to the bank to fence spot. On the way there I had a blast. Wallie up the red ledge, ollie off, quick ollie up the curb, ollie the kicker over curb. At the bank to fence we mostly skated the bank. I did most of my basic flippers within a try or two. I tried f/s halfcab flips for awhile and kind of landed one. Jake rattled off several tricks too and came super close to fakie treflip. Then we went to the newish fitness center. Jake killed it by manualling a tall edge then ollieing over a cone off the two stair. I took a long time to ollie a little rock, but man it was fun. Then we finished with a game of SKATE that took awhile for us to land anything. Jake said that one of us needed to land a 360 flip and after several fails I landed one that felt great. Jake got me on a heelflip. I forget the rest, but I won it on a b/s flip. Fun day. I felt like crap after from being out in the cold wind though. Doh.