skate journal: feeling weird but trying different stuff on campus (may 3, 2018)
After another tough day at the office I needed to get out and push. I wanted to be alone so I went to campus and pushed to an area I’ve never really been to. I messed around for a bit doing a fun little narrow ollie and some firecrackers down a couple two stairs. I had chose to wear stock insole this time instead of gamechangers. Why? Because the more I read about the dangers of orthotics and the more foot exercises I do I shouldn’t need them. It was a little weird though. I got a warm up line kind of quickly that felt great. B/s flip on an imaginary hip, switch 180 up the curb, ollie down the 3, front 180 off the curb. Then I tried to do a halfcab flip, pop shove up the curb, front 180 down the 3. But I couldn’t get the pop shove up and the halfcabs were killing me. So I ended up trying another line starting at the top of the hill. Wallride the jersey barrier, slappy crooks the yellow curb on the top right of the photo, back 180 on flat, switch front 180 up the curb, ollie the 4, ollie the 3. I struggled with the slappy crooks at first. Then I struggled with the back 180 on flat. That about ruined me. Then I kept bailing the 4 stair. The downhill approach scared me. It started to sprinkle and I guess that was the motivation to get the line. Street skating rules because as much as I struggled when I landed the line it felt great.
Since it started raining I went under the engineering building and skated this ledge. I got boardslide, noseslide, noseslide fakie, crooks jib, switch front nose halfcab noseslide. I did a back 50 on the little curb off the 3 stair then walked back to the car. Weird day with some struggles, but felt good to skate a couple different spots.
(setup 8.38 null atomic cowboy deck, venture black icon 5.8 trucks, bones medium bushings, 51mm bones stf v1 wheels, 3 washers outside each axle, new balance numeric 255 cream/gum size 12 with thin stock NB# insoles)