skate journal: Manny pad and some exploring (July 29, 2010)

Didn’t have a whole lot of energy left after all the swimming and roller coasters the day before.  After work and playing some baseball with Ollie I went to the manny pad.  There was a big puddle from the sprinkler system (good thing it was running considering how much it rained earlier) which ended up being fun to ollie as a setup for the manny pad.  Oh yeah, I had a new deck and shoes.  Another Null deck.  Geez.  And another set of the eS La Brea shoes.  This time an ugly green.  Everything felt pretty good though.  I like when I’m sitting on a stack of decks for awhile and take the one off the bottom of the stack so it’s all flat.  Love it.  Anyways, I couldn’t get a manual to start, but I got nose mannies evertime.  I did a little line of nose man, ollie the puddle, ollie up the curb to quick up the next curb.  I was happy the quick up didn’t take 10 tries like last time.  I also got that with a back 180 up eventually.  I put a box in the puddle to ollie and managed to land every ollie I tried over it until the end of the session when it got dark.  Even when I turned the box upright so it was taller.  I really didn’t land much for mannies other than a manual front 180 out and nose manny front 180 out with a little back wheel bonk action.  I got a few nollie front shoves up the curb, but couldn’t land in manual.  Carleigh met up for a minute, but was stressing over moving her washer/dryer so she was too preoccupied to lay down a kickflip nose man nollie tre out.  She left and I killed some time seeing if I was gonna get the washer/dryer by exploring around Sunflower grocery store area.  I ended up in front of Rocky Mountain Kids and spent way too much time trying to get a quick ollie over a rug followed by an ollie up onto a planter then 180 off.  There was like 4 cracks right in front of the planter then two more on top of it.  After quite a few failed attempts I figured I was just being dumb and moved on.  I cruised around a bit, but didn’t really do much.  No wonder spots appeared over night or anything and Carleigh gave her nice washer/dryer away to someone else.  I went home and set up some new wheels since it sucked having everything else new with old wheels.  Am I officially a whiny bitch when it comes to decks/wheels/shoes yet?  Man I hope so.