skate journal: Street League park, a reminder of how much I suck at skateboarding (Jan 31, 2013)

cold as shit

After work I stopped by Chipotle and chowed a yummy chicken burrito. Then I stopped by SOL to skate the ramp for a bit before he closes, but ended up playing foosball instead. Then I went to meet John at the Street League park. Upon arrival it felt really cold and all of the warm up tranny had snow on it. Great. I was the only one at the park when I showed. I cruised around for awhile doing nothing but cali grinds and tiny ollies. John showed. A rollerblader showed. This was John’s first time at the gym (I mean skatepark) so he looked at all the stuff too big for us to skate. We finally started kinda messing around on the smaller bank to curb with noseslides. Rather then slide them I just did a few stalls to get comfy with it and then managed a couple with slides. Cool. Rather then get my back John moved on. He did some front shoves to fakie on the top bank then fakie ollies into the next bank. We both noseslid the bump to bench kind of and skated the long ledge on the far side of the park for quite awhile. I got front 50, front 50 front 180, front 50 back 180 out, back crooks, front 50 and 5-0 front shoves (way after John left though). John got into some front crooks. I got a couple noseslides down the smallest rail which is kind of more a ledge. John left. I had the park all to myself for awhile so I made myself ollie down the step up from the tall part and then do it in a line. Ollie up the bigger step up in the little section, turn around, ollie down the step up, then kickflip off one of the curb high kickers. It was dumb, but it hyped me up. Then Meta Colin showed up with a couple friends. One of which was destroying the park so hard. I tried a few dumb things, but never really did much until near the end when I did a crooks followed by a kickflip to fakie from one of the middle kickers down to the lower kicker. That hyped me up enough to do a treflip on flat and call it a night. It was like 22 degrees by this time. Brrr.