skate journal: campus setup change blah depression (may 12, 2021)
Went to campus after a nice walk with Liz then dinner. Missed the old guy session at the curbs, but I wasn’t really feeling like skating curbs again anyway. It was a nice cool temp. I had setup an 8.25 with Thunder 148s and put some old Bones wheels on. Cruising into campus it felt great, lower to the ground and the hard wheels felt great. I ended up at a spot I haven’t really skated before. It’s a ledge that looks perfect, but got knobbed right away. Anyway one of the knobs is missing making for a 4 foot section. I did some lines to warm up. Ollie a manhole cover (my first ollie was surprisingly painful), noseslide the ledge, no comply 180. Then the other way switch noseslide, nollie tail a short downhill section, front 180 the manhole. Switch 180 the manhole, kickflip on flat, noseslide to fakie, fakie flip. The kickflip took awhile. Argh, I could feel the board was lighter, but I still struggled. I couldn’t crook the ledge, the truck difference was messing with me. I did have some fun slappy crooks on the uphill section. Too bad it’s knobbed because it would be fun to go all the way up. I managed a couple incredibly slow front 50s. For how bad I was feeling that made me a little happy. Until I tried to line them out with halfcab flip. That’s when things got depressing. It took forever to get an incredibly slow one. Not much went on after that, I tried some treflips, but didn’t land one or even commit.
(setup 8.25 nullosaur, jessup pj ultragrip, thunder hollow 148s, bones stf v1 52mm 103a, adidas puig b/w size 12 stock insoles)
(pain level 4/10 not really that much pain, but I just had no energy or ability to jump)