skate journal: street skating is way harder then parks. solo campus. (april 21, 2015 day 108)
Posted in Skate Journal on April 22nd, 2015 by corpoSlept really good for once and after work/dinner went out to campus to skate. My first moments on a board weren’t as disoriented feeling as they have been lately so that was nice. I ended up starting out in the area above. There is also a long hubba that I ollied to board stall then yanked up into ride down and would noseslide the end of the long curved ledge. Then I started at the top of the little hill, did a halfcab flip, ollied onto the narrow ledge (by the lit windows), ollied off and noseslid the ledge. I tried kickflip a little flat gap for awhile then crooks the ledge, never quite got that. Almost rolled my ankle on a noseslide to fakie attempt. Got a boardslide on it too. Then tried a line forever consisting of no comply 180, fakie big flip, ollie onto the narrow ledge (now dark), front shove off, .. . But I never landed the front shove. In face I could barely land a no comply 180 to save my life. Compound that with how bad I was a fakie big flips and I think I only tried two shoves. I was over it. I tried it for over an hour easy and it was very hard to not focus my board. Good thing I’m out of boards or I’m pretty sure I would have. Made myself ollie onto the curved bench (taller then it looks) and I split out.
I ended up at this area. Started with a line of switch front 180 off the top ledge, ollie onto/off the second ledge, noseslide the downhill ledge. The switch 180 took awhile as did the ollie onto the ledge. I was scared of my butt hitting the handrail and the drop on the other side. I got a couple bad ones and the line. I was remotely stoked. But I wanted a better ollie onto the ledge so I decided to try it all over again, but crooks the ledge at the end instead. To my surprise I would get better ollies up the ledge (because I was skating faster) and I managed to get one crooks. It was a very satisfying line and made the night decent.
Last thing was 10 flip tricks at the art building before I could leave. Kickflip, varial flip, fakie flip, b/s flip, halfcab flip, heelflip these went pretty quick. Went for treflip. Bad idea. At least I tried other tricks one way. Got nollie treflip, f/s halfcab flip and fakie varial flip before I would finally land a both hands on the ground treflip. I was so tired at that point I called it good. Bummed on how bad I skated at times, but stoked I did some real street skating. Man it’s so much harder then parks or just sessioning one spot.
(setup 8.38 null venture wides bones med bushings spitfire f4 99 52mm NB+ stratford 479)