skate journal: campus pain and frustration (july 1, 2017)
Didn’t sleep well because I had been told I would be called for work early Saturday morning. Somehow I didn’t get called and later in the afternoon I decided I should take advantage. I went to the slappy curb for awhile. It became obvious that my legs were not good very quickly. When the pain kicks in, so does depression and lack of motivation. I got a few slappy crooks and moved on. This is when I knew I was stubborn and shouldn’t be skating. I did a line of slow flatground kickflip, ollie up the curb, ollie the tiny 3 stair, back 180 off it. It took awhile. Ugh. Then I went up to the two stair area above. I noticed a little section had been waxed up. I did a back 50, it felt cool. Then I tried two lines in the opposite direction. Halfcab crook then kick back tail one way. Ollie up the two, front 180 off, switch crook. I had nothing. Never got into the halfcab crook. Did get into kick back tail, but they were really lame. The ollies up the 2 stair hurt. I kept doing them though because I’m sick of not being able to ollie. Never got the switch crook. I was trying to find motivation to move into campus more, but instead I just left.
(setup 8.25″ null spanbauer deck, venture 5.2 highs, venom 88a bushings, bones stf v3 52mm, 3 washers on the inside of each axle, nbnumeric pj 533 black/gum/hyperfeel with footprint gamechanger insoles)