Biked to campus on a nice day wanting to skate this little ledge. I figured it would be a good way to get some confidence back. It was pretty warm out, but I left my hoodie on as my body seems to skate best when I’m not. And it seemed to work. I quickly had some front 50s and 5-0s. Flip tricks even went okay too. Landed my first two backside flips, got halfcab flip and close to 360 flip. It took me awhile to get a back 50 though. I hadn’t gone over the corner like that in awhile, but it felt cool when I finally got one. I also got a back 5-0. Tried front crooks or nosegrind for awhile, never got either. Came close to halfcab crooks, kick back tail and switch front crooks. Never ollied the 3 stair. Didn’t realize I was there for too long when I got a call from Liz asking when I’d be home and realized it had been 3 hours. Ha. I love that little ledge.

(setup 8.38 null machine deck, venture 5.8 wides, 3 washers outside each axle, Venom 88a bushings, 52mm Spitfire F4 classic 99a green wheels, bronson bearings, New Balance Numeric 344 white superfeet 3/4 insoles with a thin adidas insole on top)

A wet morning meant we planned for yellow curbs even though it had dried up outside. It was still cold though. The crew was Dave, Simon, Carleigh, Fuzz, Mathew, Brillo, Lazer and Nolan. I was feeling pretty self conscious about my low level of skating these days. I was able to ollie up curbs, but it wasn’t easy. So it kind of made me want to hide at times. I did have some fun with slappy crooks and I was hyped to actually manual one of the manual pads, but other that that I mostly hid on the far side trying to line out basic tricks like kickflip and back 50. I got a couple slow lame lines. I hate the cold. Highlights from others I saw: Fuzz did noseslide to crooks to fakie, high speed fakie ollies up curbs. Carleigh did multiple front lips and might have done nollie lips too. Lazer had a sick back tail and some pretty gnarly slams. Nolan did a kick back tail while I was checking my phone. Doh. Also a nollie nose manual nollie flip out. Mathew was flying around the place. Brillo had some flippers that really surprised me like switch heel done so well. Dave did slappy crooks shove and a cool 360 plant over a ledge. Simon did such a sick long boardslide transfer.

(setup 8.38 null machine deck, venture 5.8 wides, 3 washers outside each axle, Venom 88a bushings, 52mm Spitfire F4 classic 99a green wheels, bronson bearings, New Balance Numeric 344 white superfeet 3/4 insoles with a thin adidas insole on top)