Slept 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)

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