Went to Blue Skies during my lunch break on another day of the 70 degree heat wave. Man it was nice out. Luke was there. We talked a lot. So I didn’t get a whole lot of skating in. He’s got a sponsor me video company. Anyway I didn’t do much and was feeling the effects of new everything. I did one line of ollie into the bank, ollie a flat bar then back 180 the little part of the curvy bar. Boneless and kickflip to fakie on the main bank. Heelflip and fakie heel on flat. Crooks and front 50 on the low ledge. Tried front smiths on the low ledge going slow. Got really close. Popped out of one, but my foot came off. Then accidentally did tailslide and slammed onto the ledge hard. I went back to work then.

(setup 8″ venture lows bones med bushing ricta crap 51mm wheels)

A photo posted by carleigh samson (@gnarlycarleigh) on Jan 26, 2015 at 8:15pm PST

On an unseasonably warm evening in the 50s I went to the dimly lit St Julien spot. I was to meet Jack and Carleigh. I started doing laps. Front 50, back 50. I had finally retired my previous pair of Stratfords and was rocking a new pair. Since I’ve skated only this shoe for a long time they felt fine. I added front 50 180 out and a manual on the ledge. Jack and Carleigh had shown. Jack was super sore from the day before. He isn’t 20 anymore. He’s 22. Ha ha! He still did some manuals all easy tailblock slides and front 5-0s. Carleigh mostly skated flatground. Did some nollie shoves, tailblock slides and noseslides. We pushed and walked for awhile. Jack and I ollied a little gap. Ok, Jack ollied it easy. I took a bunch of tries to do a weak stretched out no pop ollie where I landed sideways. Lastly we ended up at the new ledge spot. It’s sick. Jack and Carleigh got cute and did doubles. Jack did front board to manual. Carleigh did boardslide. Then some steezy noseslides. Then tried noseslide shove and front 180 nosegrind. Jack had front 50’d it super easy when we got there. I wanted that. But the shortness of the ledge weirded me out. I had to settle for going in slow and sideways and just doing a little stall. A front noseslide made me feel better at least. Then I had to split to pick up India.

(setup 8″ venture lows bones med bushing ricta crap 51mm wheels)