skate journal: some real skating and then some knee pain at the northGLENn gym (Dec 18, 2011)
So for whatever reason while I was under the influence of pain killers and kickflip withdrawal I gripped a new board and wrote on it “Skateparks are the new gym”. The more I think about it the more it seems accurate. Luckily I’m kind of a jock so it works out. Carreigh picked me up around 11 and we thought we were gonna be late to meet up with the rest of the Gym Factory. We even stopped by Crisis to pickup little Keenan. I guess they were still eating which I should have known. It was really nice out, but unfortunately it was little kid hour. Carreigh ate in the car for awhile while Keenan and I rolled around. He ripped it out of the gates. I was feeling better then I have in months and even got a kickflip in a couple tries. I managed to get like 7 or 8 in a row. Some of them even felt ok. Cruising around the park was fun. I didn’t do anything out of the ordinary for awhile. After quite some time I managed to finally boardslide the little ledge. That felt great. TF eventually showed up and started flexing their pexs. Most were in the bowl which I’ve been avoiding so far because I cant run fast enough if I had to run out of a bail (and you know I would). I skated the flat bank in front of the hubba for a bit and decided I should at least do all the tricks that Ollie did last time. Rock fakie first t. back rock first t. front rock first t. Whew. Then I went on to get a few more like front slash and front feeble. I took a few slams in there which hurt worse than they used to. After that I managed my favorite run in awhile which was a boardslide on the ledge, axle stall on the steep bank in front of the hubba then a flatground kickflip. Unfortunately that kickflip hurt my knee in the same way that hurt months ago. UGH. Shortly after Fuzz rolled his ankle pretty bad on a front rock bail in the bowl. Doh. Another TF down. I chilled for awhile hoping the knee pain would go away. Brian had some awesome attempts at a bluntslide transfer into a bank. Hard to describe but he flies along on the top of the deck of a bank and starts booger sliding into a bluntslide on top of the bank. He slammed a lot and even took out a game of SKATE. Careligh was cruising around and got some tailslides across the hip. Travis did a sick backside ollie transfer from the little bank up on to the hubba. Jake crooksied the ledge and did more than just kickturn on the kinked wannabe jersey barrier wall. Neil yelled at bikers, kids and did some good lipslides on the ledge. After my knee started hurting I didn’t do so much. I could cruise around fine, but not squat for ollies. Ugh. Most of us just sat and watched the good skating that was going on. At one point we tried holding our breath until someone lands a trick. Man, skaters never land anything. Brian probably won that game. Fun day. Glad I felt good for at least an hour or so. I hope the knee pain goes away like it did before.