Went out in the garage on a warm night still feeling sore and burnt out. I did the first kickflip, but it was sloppy. Bailed the next one. Landed the next one good and called it a night.
Feeling completely burnt out and sore I went into the garage for one kickflip. It took 4 tries. Then I went inside.
Brought Ledgy out and found some decent flatground to put it. I started with mostly flatground and tried to skate a little faster again. Man it makes tricks so much more difficult and I was once again unable to land a 360 flip. Ugh. I did have a few decent heelflips at least. I did a back 50 first try on Ledgy which was relieving, but then it took awhile to get it again. Argh. Jack showed up and immediately started trying pop shove crooks which he would eventually land. Along with kick back tail, front smith, a bunch more tricks. It’s rad skating with Jack. He is infinitely better at skating with me, but I still feel like I can skate like myself around him. I didn’t really land anything else, but tried a few front crooks.
Then we went to Valmont manual pads. I was so sore I couldn’t even ollie up the curb for awhile. Jack did a manual the long way to back 50 right away. I would try it for the next hour before getting it. Ha. In the meantime Jack also did manual kickflip back tail. So crazy! He also did a bunch of back 180 fakie manual halfcabs out. Even one with a fakie bigspin out. I got somewhat close to nose manuals and kickflips manuals, but really I was just sore and stoked to be skating with Jack. Finally getting the long manual to 50 was pretty darn fun.
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Met Dave at this spot after driving around for awhile trying to find something dry. I we started with some did some kick turn warm ups and stuff before settling on some tricks to try. I was set on rock ‘n roll kickflip out. Dave was doing fakie front shove. We did them. We filmed them. Dave added a popped ollie after and I added a no pop 180 over the snow gap. We filmed each other. It was cool. Dave had to split out and I decided to try the rock ‘n roll kickflip some more as a challenge to Josh in the game. Fun. Although I did bruise the harch of my back foot on some of the failed attempts that didn’t flip all of the way.
Then I found this perfect section of concrete and played around for awhile. I tried to skate faster which made tricks harder and I didn’t get too far on the list. I couldn’t do a 360 flip or nollie tre. It was mostly fun though.
Then I met Fuzz and a bunch of others at Darin’s ramp. I was pretty sore and tired and unmotivated. I had a decent first run and added a weak front feeble as a new one there. Others were ripping. Justin did a blunt kickflip to fakie. CJ had 20 minute runs with every trick looking perfect and learned blunt kickflip to fakie at the very end. Austin’s back d’s look like Grant Taylor’s back ds. Fuzz’s halfcab back blunt first try ruled. Darin did the longest back tail I’ve seen him do. Adam pops blunt to fakie higher then anyone.
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Feeling oh so tired and sore I got out of work early and met Dave for a short and mellow session at one of the dry spots we could find. The concrete was ok, a lot of bigger cracks though. The curb itself sucked as it was so rough. A lot of wax didn’t get it going. I didn’t feel like ollieing or doing many flip tricks. Dave was cruising around doing lots of switch ollies and switch shoves. Neither of us could get the curb to grind so we mostly did stall tricks. Dave had some totally great old man style BSTS where the last S means stall. And they were barely even that. Ha. I kept trying to get the thing to slappy crooks and it would eventually do so. We tried a bunch of switch crook stalls and each got some. They were fun. I was trying to switch ollie up the curb to start the line, Most of the time I was kind of spracking up it, but whatever. I also tried kickflip crook stalls and got remotely close. The sun set and we took off for warmer times with our families.
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Lots of great parts this week, but Bobby wins for me. Love the lines, lines lines.
I got off work too late to make it to Skatuary with Riley, Bernie and crew. I’m not sure I really wanted to go anyway though. And I had decided I just couldn’t skate in my garage again so I loaded up Ledgy and went to the IHOP garage. I should have hit up some people, but for some reason I don’t anymore. Gotta change that. So I started with a couple runs of ollies and powerslides before laying into the Fullerton spin since I needed to do it for the game. It took awhile and pushing switch uphill to get speed was hard. I had a good slam on one, tore up my knuckles on another and finally landed one. Fun start.
Then I brought out Ledgy and started with front 50s quicker then normal. I was trying to line things out a couple flippers above the ledge, but then a homeless lady started changing near where I was starting so I kind of just stuck to the ledge after that. I still hucked some flippers, but not as much, and I really didn’t land much of anything. After front 50s I tried front smiths and got remotely close. I would skate it backside going uphill, but the hill was a lot less steep then I remembered so it really didn’t matter. I got noseslide and crooks pretty quick and then started the back 50 battle. I don’t know what it is about Ledgy that scares me so much, but it really brings out the worst in me. It’s so short that you can’t really grind much and have to get off right after getting in. So I got hung up on back 50 for close to an hour. It was so depressing. I did land one and it felt so insanely easy that it made me even more depressed. But I had a fast halfcab noseslide that eased the pain a little. I was hucking flip tricks and not landing anything. I tried a bunch of fakie nosegrinds and didn’t land any. I ended trying halfcab crooks (got kind of close) and front tails. I did a little front tail stall and called it a night. It was a depressing night, but I am happy to have finally gone out to a parking garage instead of doing the stationary skating in my garage.
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Went out into the garage not very inspired and wanted to have a quick session. I randomly decided to huck 1 of every basic flip trick there is. Starting with kickflips up to big heels. I got kickflip, fakie flip out of the kickflip group. Backside and frontside flips, b/s halfcab flip out of 180 flips. No heelflips. No heelflip 180s. No varial heels although switch varial heel was somehow close. Landed 360 flip and varial flip. Fakie bigflip. Hardflips nope. Big heels nope. It was actually pretty fun. I bet I’ll never get close to switch varial heel again.
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Went out to the garage not feeling so motivated about having to skate there again. I mean I guess I could hit a parking garage, but it was only like 10 degrees out. I randomly started doing the rad no comply/boneless tricks that Rob does to get warmed up. Then I decided to try it 180 (above). So fun. I was also doing kickflips to get things going. I got a heelflip in less time then it’s taken in awhile, but of course next up was treflip and it took awhile. I had quite a few random ideas. I struggled with one foot tailgrab for awhile which I couldn’t really do in high school and to no surprise I still can’t. Couldn’t nollie flip. Did some frontside grabs and a pop shove tail grab. Ha. Posed nollie heel, switch frontside flip, switch flip with no success. Finished the night trying kickflip noseslides. Got a couple close ones, but never locked in. One of these days I hope.
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Went out in the garage after work and worked through most of the basic flippers. Kickflip, fakie flip, heelflip took way too long, 360 flip real quick helped erase the pain of struggling at heelflip, b/s and f/s flips, halfcab flips both ways. Then I went in for dinner, did the dished and headed back out to the garage determined to land a new flipper. But I struggled. So close to nollie and switch flips. Soooo close. Argh. Close to varial heel, couldn’t do halfcab heel, posed nollie back heel and switch f/s flip. Felt out hardflips, switch heels, nollie heels, but didn’t get close. Close to nollie varial flip and nollie treflips. The tiny garage is so hard for some tricks. I still had fun though and the shoes feel much more broken in now.
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