Early lunch solo on a cool day (low 30s). Warming up was a battle as usual. Something about that place makes warming up hard. I did a couple more of those wallie/nollie things while holding on then tried it without holding on and landed one! Then I landed every one after that. I was hyped! So I solo filmed one. I’ve wanted to learn that trick for a long time. It feels just like slappy crooks. Then I tried a line for awhile. Halfcab flip on flat, crooks up an escalator ledge, turn around on the bank and back 50 up an escalator ledge. After a couple good feeling halfcab flips I tried with heelflip. Never got the line. Close though. The main bank wasn’t really skateable due to yesterdays wind causing snow to drift in. Other stuff, front 50 shove on the regular ledge, halfcab noseslide on it, almost noseslide shove on the tall middle ledge, 0-10 on treflips, couldn’t ollie onto the tall middle ledge. Learning the wallride nollie made up for the rest of the sucking.

(setup 8.25 null venture 5.2 hi’s 3 washers inside 52mm spitfire 99a F4 bones med bushings nb# pj stratford 533 burgundy)

I really wanted to skate a parking garage or something, but the wind was howling and it was cold so I opted for another garage session. I had just played indoor hoops with Ollie so my legs were pretty warmed up. I rattled off quite a few of the basics quickly. Kickflip, shoves, fakie flip, varial flip, heelflip, halfcab flip, b/s flip, f/s flip and even 360 flip. I started trying switch flips again, but wasn’t feeling it so tried 360 and fakie 360 shoves. I landed on a bunch of both, but never rode out. That’s what I like about the garage sessions at least, just trying random tricks.

(setup 8.25 null venture 5.2 hi’s 3 washers inside 52mm spitfire 99a F4 bones med bushings nb# pj stratford 533 burgundy)