skate journal: rainbow ledge with Lazer and Neil then red curbs with Jason (June 25)

First day with the kids and wife gone on vacation and it rains.  Figures.  But before it rained Lazer and Neil headed to my house where I was skating some flatground.  Was trying a run of fakie bigflip, front shove, 360 flip.  Came close, but never got it.  We split out to the Mikes Camera ledge where Lazer slammed immediately over shooting a front 50.  It was pretty funny.  He still ripped it of course.  Sometimes I can skate that ledge well and sometimes it treats me horribly.  This was one of the latter.  I got a boardslide pop out pretty quick and bailed a bunch of front 50s.  Ugh.  Tried a few front 50 to front boards, but never got it.  Was also trying back boardslides shove it out, but never came very close.  I guess I’m not Nate.  Lazer brought us over to ollie the six stair where he did it peice of cake, but Neil and I weren’t feeling it.  We started messing around on the metal grate bank but the rain settled in.  Argh.Later on Jason and I hit red curbs.  I was pretty beat from the earlier session, but figured I should skate a lot while the family is gone.  It wasn’t an easy session for me.  Pretty early on I was trying a front 5-0 and ate shit in such a weird way that I hit my head on the curb.  Not bad enough to leave a bump even, but kinda scary.  Nothing like hitting your head while skating a curb.  I was also pretty bummed on how my crooks are just little jibs and the fact that it took me 50 tries to get a 360 flip.  All in all not a great session, but we skated hard and had a good time.