skate journal: some blah and some fun solo campus (oct 12, 2017)
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)