After a horrendous night of not sleeping due to being called for work and then a full day of work I went across the street just wanting to push. It was a beautiful evening. I ended up in the main parking lot where I haven’t spent much time before. There are some fun curb cuts and it felt good to cruise them. Nollie into one, front 180 off the next, switch 180 into next and then ollie out of the last one. Back 180s off were fun too. I was skating a little faster than normal for me (which isn’t saying much). I tried to do this manual up a sidewalk and around a little rock garden. I didn’t get too close, but I was happy that I was scaring myself ollieing up the curb at speed. I ended with a kickflip axle stall on a little curb and went home.

(setup null rabethica 8.5″ deck, venture 5.8 v-light, 1/16″ riser, venom 91a bushings, 52mm spitfire f4 radial slim green/black, new balance numeric 212 burgundy size 11, spenco 3/4 thinsoles, footprints 5mm insole)

After a run to Meta I did a solo mission to campus. I haven’t been there since the students arrived after summer. I wasn’t feeling very social or all that motivated really, but I just didn’t want to end up at research ledge again. I started with a couple slappy crooks at the meet up curb which didn’t come easy. After quite a bit of pushing I ended up at the little bank by the stadium. I tried to pop some basic ollies to start with. Frontside and to fakie. It was fun. Did a few no complies then took a bit too long to do a kickflip to fakie. I posed a couple treflips to fakie and decided to move on.

I hit this ledge for a bit. It’s right by where Dave almost died trying to boardslide a curb. Last time I was there I barely got noseslide and noseslide to fakie on it. Both of those came pretty easy this time so I went for boardslide next. It took a bit, but I got a couple. The ledge is tall, but short in distance which makes it hard. I hucked a few flip tricks, but didn’t land much in between tries. I figured I should try crooks since I was on a roll. Got it first try! A cop rolled up and parked as I was trying to ollie one of the rocks which made me happy to not have to go through that battle.

I was headed to a bigger ledge, but remembered this and was hyped. Normally there is no one around, but due to construction a lot of students were walking by. It made it a little frustrating, but it was still fun. I took longer than I should to get a front 50, but back 50s came easy. I wanted to try something new and decided to start hucking back 180 nosegrinds. Well as you can see above I kind of got one. It felt rad I must say. Then I basically walked home. Kind of a weird night with periods of no motivation and then decent tricks for me. It was good for me to get out of my element a little and street skating always feels more rewarding than a park.

(setup null rabethica 8.5″ deck, venture 5.8 v-light, 1/16″ riser, venom 91a bushings, 52mm spitfire f4 radial slim green/black, new balance numeric 212 burgundy size 11, spenco 3/4 thinsoles, footprints 5mm insole)