skate journal: solo buena vista park (may 31, 2011)

Posted in Skate Journal on June 2nd, 2011 by corpo

Definitely having a tough day. Had a couple hours before Liz and the kids would arrive so I went to the park. I had to clear some tumbleweeds out from under the ledge to be able to skate it. My body felt sore, but mostly I could not get the sound of my mom crying out of my head. I started out doing laps from the qp and flyout. I’d start by ollie’ing the flat bar, axle stall the tall qp, try to do sucked up ollies out of the flyout, frontside smith on the small qp, then manual the ledge. Didn’t get them all. After awhile I tried just manual followed by nose manual on the ledge. It took me awhile just to get manual and I hung up on a few nose manny attempts. Ugh. I was feeling really old. Not just old physically, but old. I kept at it though. Finally got back 50 on the little ledge. I tried to ollie the 3 stair handrail for awhile. There is a big crack right before it so it’s kind of weird. I got some ollies over it, but kicked it away. I would like to do that sometime, but my head definitely wasn’t in it. Eventually the family showed up and Ollie rolled around with me for awhile. It cheered me up, but we had to go.