John offered $20 if I ollie this in SF

Posted in Trick Factory on March 3rd, 2011 by corpo

But seeing as how Gordon said it was too big for him chances are pretty slim ..

skate journal: solo campus pre-SF session (March 1, 2011)

Posted in Skate Journal on March 3rd, 2011 by corpo

Skating a couple days before a skate trip is the worst.  I wanted to skate, but the fear of getting hurt is kinda hard to ignore.  So I went to campus around 9pm and it was way colder than it should have been.  I wasn’t too motivated and it showed.  I cruised around to a few spots and didn’t really try anything.  Eventually I ended up near the tunnel going to the hill.  I wanted to do a run where I ollie onto the ledge on the 3 stair, kickflip, powerslide, noseslide the ledge that Jam front noseslid in an old Meta video.  But I couldn’t get the speed for the first ollie so I just resorted to ollie’ing the 3 stair.  But even then I didn’t do the noseslide as it was too sticky and I was going to fast.  I also tried starting the line with the drop from tall ledge to short ledge which is still terrifying to me even though I’ve done it a bunch.  That was a dumb line too.  It was cool trying to tailslide the rail at the start of the ledge though.  I eventually moved down to the next building and started trying a line of no comply 180, fakie ollie up a curb, fakie flip, sw front 180 off.  But the fakie flip was troublesome as it was a downhill sidewalk and the cracks kept getting me.  Then a cop drove nearby so I left and ended up at the ledges on the hill.  I started off sucking, but ended up having fun.  Got some front 50s and some b/s noseslides before the light shut off and I slowly headed back to the car not really skating much of anything on the way back.