Did these silly little ride on grinds for awhile. Some turned into 50s. Some were longer nosegrinds and I would stick. Some I just ran into it. Oh well, it was fun.
I did so much to be able to skate this day. Yoga, PT exercises, Ming Chew exercises, foam roller, etc. I even changed my board to an 8.5. Ha. It was the board I started out 2017 on. With the bigger shoes again the wheelbase of the 8.25 feel small and I’ve kind of given up on tech tricks at this point. I just want to relearn the basics on a nice big board. I went to campus on a beautiful afternoon with very little expectations. I started with slappy crook. Got a few then rolled across campus to the stadium bank. Took awhile to get a kickflip that I was happy with, but it felt good. Did a few other tricks like fakie flip and boneless and then tried like a million treflips to fakie. I got close a few times, but eventually called it good. I ended up at the ledge spot. I took a long time to get a 50 even though I wasn’t having too much trouble popping in. Actually I was really liking the bigger board for that, but I kept sticking. The couple I landed felt rad though. I was gonna go try some frontside noseslides on a taller ledge, but decided I should not push it.
Feeling incredibly sore all day at work I met up with Dave at the Blue Skies rink. I had switched back to bulky PJs with Superfeet insoles to try and help the pain. But it was too late. I couldn’t even bend really. If Dave would have been later I would have just left, but he showed up and my stubborn self skated with him. I managed a few terrible kickflips, some incredibly slow fakie flips, a few shoves and bailed a bunch of treflips and nollie treflips. I was in so much pain, I never should have skated. Dave skated pretty good. He had some funny kickflips (photo) and then some good ones. Lots of solid front shoves and a bunch of treflip attempts. Some of which were very close. He’s gonna be legit some day! Ha ha.
Went to Saul’s after work. I’m writing this almost a week later so my recollection of what happened wont be good. It was a fun session. All of us rolled in on the easy side. I had to do kickflips on flat to get myself hyped enough to do the roll in. Eric also rolled in on the gnar coping. Saul’s got back 50s on the gnar coping often now. I had some runs with more than one axle stall so that was exciting. Eric was trying to ride on grind around the corner, but never quite committed. I never quite got a frontside scratch grind in the deep end. Saul and Eric had a couple near death experiences. Maybe I should be trying harder stuff so I can get scared too.
I was trying vulcs with FP Gamechanger insoles. As I learned later in pain, that is not going to help my knee pain.
