skate journal: Ledgy! for a couple hours in between being Mr Mom (March 7, 2015 day 65)
Liz is gone so I’m Mr Mom for a few days. After bringing India to ballet I had an hour or so since Ollie had to do homework. There was snow everywhere. It’s amazing how much snow dumped while I was in the NW. So I busted out Ledgy. I started off struggling so bad. A reminder that I was sick. Boardslides, noseslides, back crooks and front 50s were pretty quick. Then I tried to just ollie onto the ledge and kept accidentally manualling it. I was going so slow. Ugh. There was a slight downhill slope to the spot that weirded me out. I would eventually get back 50s, back 5-0s, front 5-0, front 50 front 180 and almost front tail. I was way scared of doing the back 50 on the slight downhill. So lame. I changed the ledge around a couple times. I threw some flippers. Had a couple bad treflips and started hucking varial heels over and over. They kept getting closer and closer and I finally landed one. I was skating slow (obviously), but man it felt cool. I went home and changed the angle iron so the screws are on the wheelbase side. Not sure why I never did that before. I should bust Ledgy out more, it was fun. And now that I will hopefully not hang up on back 50s that stick to the screw it should be even more fun.
(setup 8.25 venture wides bones med bushings no washers 52mm null wheels)