After work feeling better I went to skate the tennis court, but there was a football practice next to it and all the ledges were piled in a corner. So I drove near campus and went to the little 4 stair gap with the flagstone bench after it. But the flatground had pebbles everywhere and there were still kids around so I went down the sidewalk and ended up at uni hill school where I would camp out for a couple hours. That spot is pretty epic I’m not sure why it’s not waxed in spots. I messed around with a couple of things before settling in on a line. Flip trick, shove off the curved bench, ollie the lowest part of the ledge. I thought that would be a good warm up line. Two hours later I was scraping myself up off the floor amazed at how bad I am at skateboarding. Granted the flip trick at the top of the hill was awkward, but still I was like 5/50 on varial flips and when I did land them I was too scared to commit to the pop shove. Then it was fakie bigflip which I was like 4/50 on and only committed to one shove. Halfcab flips were super hard and I only got one. I was starting to get so incredibly tired and resorted to kickflips to start, but I had the board backwards to setup for shoves and it was so hard. I landed one pop shove finally with my hands down then finally tried the tiny little ollie and slammed so incredibly hard. Like fully shot out and landed on the upper part of my back. I was happy to skate hard and to street skate, but man, that was brutal.

(setup 8.5 null vhs deck, jessup ultragrip, thunder hollow lite 149 venom 88a bushings, 52mm snot pink/yellow swirl 101a, new balance numeric 440 white/red size 12 half insoles)
(pain level 3/10)

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