Was thinking I’d be in a parking garage for sure, but late in the afternoon the temperature went way up to 40 and the snow disappeared from the cement (it was still all over the grass). I started at this bank. Since I had blown out the PJs I was doing some closet cleaning and skating an old pair of Es Accel Slims. They felt decent, a little thin compared to what I’ve been used to so I was scared to commit to flippers sometimes. I started out on the bank. After some warm up carves and nollie shoves I started in with the flippers. The kickflip took awhile and then varial flip took so long I gave up and decided to go with 360 flip to fakie. I got a couple where I put the hands down, but that was about it. 45 minutes of frustration. I would try nollie flips or switch heels on the way back. I got close to nollie flips, but never put my feet on it.

Then I went to the other side of the building and tried to line out the manny pad for awhile. I was really hucking and posed some 360 flip disaster stalls on a curb. Got close to manual and nose manual front 180 out, f/s halfcab heel. I had begun realizing I would not actually land anything this day.

I went to leave, but saw this little curb cut I’ve never ollied. I wanted to line it out. Flip trick in the street, ollie up the curb, ollie the curb cut, do a downhill manual on the sidewalk across the street. I started by not being able to land halfcab flips. I chalked it up to new shoes and stuck with it and started landing them. I was hyped on how fast I would ollie up the little curb, but never got the curb cut. I’d say the angle was wrong, but really, it’s just me. It was depressing.

So I tried to cheer myself up with a couple more flip tricks on the bank before leaving. My first fakie flip was a total shinner. Ugh. Then it took like 5 more tries to land it. Man what a day. I did kickflip to fakie and then tried to do a cab tailblock. Got kind of close before posing 10 switch flips on the bank and calling it a day. At least I don’t expect to land a switch flip. Pretty rotten day, but was happy to be able to skate outdoors.

(setup 8.38 null control room, venture wides, venom 88a bushings, bones stf 51mm v2, es accel slim black/white)

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