skate journal: solo research center ledge (june 9, 2014)

Posted in Skate Journal on June 10th, 2014 by corpo

Around the time it was getting dark out I went to the research center ledge. No lights were on and so I went right to the ledge since I thought they wouldn’t come on and I just wanted to get one crook at least. I managed a few warm up boardslides, noseslides and was able to get a crooks or two before the lights turned on. Sweet! I didn’t try much of the frustration lines down the hill until the end of the night. I tried back 50s for awhile. Technically I did a back 5-0 on my first back 50 attempt, so maybe I should have left it, but no, instead I struggled with back 50s for a long time. I realized I needed to ollie sooner then I was and ended up getting into quite a few and getting a couple. I had a line going the other way of front shove, front 180 the manhole, halfcab front noseslide attempt. Got kinda close. Felt good hucking. Did a few more crooks trying to go faster/longer and am finally getting a crooks groove on the front truck so it was getting easier. Tried a few lines down the hill that ended with a front 180 up the curb, fakie ollie on flat then halfcab noseslide. Never quite got the hc noseslide. I blame the lack of wax leftover from Fremonsters visit. I was timid on the flippers down the hill which bummed me out a little. Oh well. Pretty awesome night. I left when a cop drove by figuring it was a sign.