Nate and I went to the research center in search of dry and found it! We were there a bit before others showed up. Nate had some some good no comply 180s up the curb and flailed some noseslides. I had some noseslides. Then we kind of kept going up the hill further and trying lines and that’s when other people started showing up. Rob, Matt, Dave and Carleigh. Rad crew! It ended up mostly turning into a flatground session and no one was really getting down the hill so we were mostly all together at the top. Rob had long manuals and nose manuals. I also saw a long line with kickflips, shoves, 180s, no complys. Nate had a textbook nollie heel, followed by a nollie tre, a switch front heel, an amazingly long and awesome nose manual. We all tried b/s flips for awhile. Not very many were landed. Matt had his patented treflips flowing, had a couple bigflips, a switch treflip or two. Carleigh had kickflips, nollie shoves, 180s, came really close to b/s flip. Dave had some buttery manuals, regular and switch no complies, kickflips. I had one slow 360 flip, a few fakie big flips and other regular tricks of mine, but mostly struggled. We hit the shady ledge for awhile. Nate had good back 50s, couldn’t quite get back 5-0, and did a good noseslide. I had a few crooks that felt awesome and a couple bad back 50s. Matt had back 50s, tried back smith and back tail. I can’t seem to remember what the goofy footers did. Carleigh may have done noseslide shove. Rob halfcab boardslide pop out I think. Dave had a solid front 50 and may have gotten into front crooks. Then it was time to drop Nate off at the bus for his flight back to Portland. Doh. Fun skating with you dude!
After dropping off Nate I went in search of a place to do wallies for the game. At first I tried on this kink of a wall off the bike patch near my house. Technically I got a couple, but they were so bad I didn’t put them in the clip. Then I went to campus in hopes of finding something to wallie. I ended up above. The spot was harder then it looks as there is no runway. I should have probably cleaned it up, but the slam hurt more then it should and it was getting cold. I was walking back to my car thinking I would wait to try a new trick until some other day. But then I saw the 5 stair and it was saying “Hey Glen, firecracker me!” So I tried. It took me awhile actually. I’ve never done more then 4 shorter stairs so this was a challenge for me. When I got it I was quite hyped. It was funny because there were a ton of students in the building behind me studying and I kind of felt bad. On top of that I had my phone propped up against a cup I found in the trash in the middle of a busy sidewalk. Luckily no one stepped on it. Fun day!
(setup 8.38 null venture wides bones med bushings spitfire 52mm 99a f4 nb# pj stratford brown/gum)
