skate journal: short rampy session with Ollie (feb 16, 2015 day 47)
Went out to Rampy with Ollie after dinner on a snowy night. I had to clean up the mess of truck parts. While I did that Ollie just pumped back and forth for literally 5 minutes. Ha. I was kind of in learn Texas Plants mode since I have to now:
Did a few other basics, but mostly hucked Texas Plants. Couldn’t get close. Ollie and I let our boards drop in then jump on them when they came back. I figured that’s a start on jumping into tranny. Then Ollie put this box in the middle of the ramp and we skated around it. It was easier then I thought actually. Ollie ran into it once though which was really funny. Then I started trying to cheat the last part of a Texas Plant by holding on to the tail and setting the board on the ramp and going in. Setting the board fully in without jumping in was pretty easy. Jumping in though, scary. I kind of did it, but probably had my front foot on tranny before “jumping” with my back foot. Oh well, fun, short night and stoked that Ollie skated.
(setup 8.25 venture wides bones med bushings no washers null wheels)