skate journal: fun times under the engineering building (jan 5, 2016 day 5)
On a cool night (low 30s) I went to the engineering building not feeling overly motivated. That ended up changing quickly though. I had a couple weak ollies and kickflips then starting trying the ol’ back 50 down the little 3 stair ledge. That was a fun warm up and let me to a line. Halfcab flip on flat, back 50, ollie the 3 stair, noseslide the bump to ledge. The noseslide was hard as I normally use a lot of angle on tricks and with the rail you can’t really use any. Then I wanted to do a similar line, but with f/s halfcab to start. I struggled with it, and when I finally started getting it the 3 stair ollie got me every time. Well, just the cracks. Them cracks kill. I was hucking all kinds of flip tricks in between tries. I didn’t land much, but it was fun. I tried to front 50 the shorter ledge by the rail, but the narrow approach got the best of me.
Then some cops posted up down the way a little so I hid myself at this bench. I would try a b/s trick (f/s isn’t really possible because of the pillar) and then turn around and try a flip trick. I tried to stack the ledge tricks. Boardslide, noseslide, noseslide to fakie, crooks, halfcab noseslide, switch front noseslide to fakie, switch front nose and lastly fakie nosegrind. I never got the fakie nosegrind, but I did get close. I also tried a few back 5-0’s that felt remotely doable. I didn’t land many flip tricks and I kind of blame the new shoes. They will break in though. Good shoes should take awhile to break in in my opinion. After awhile the hunger pains were just too much and I left.
(setup 8.25 null venture 5.2 hi’s 52mm spitfire 99a F4 3 washers inside bones med bushings nb# pj stratford 533 burgundy)