skate journal: flatground and gnarly puddle gaps at the research center (feb 18, 2015 day 49)

huge

It was warm out and lots of snow had melted. I stopped by the research center on the way home from work because it has lots of open newish asphalt. Flatground went ok. Still struggling with halfcab flips and treflips. I tried to manual this curb and stuff too. It was pretty early on and I was trying a run where I ollied a little puddle then quickly ollied up the curb, pushed a couple times and ollied this puddle. I’m not sure how, but I landed really far back on the tail and cracked my board more. Doh. Had some heelflips, landed on a switch flip, but couldn’t get it. Switch flips are such a tease. As soon as I think I might land it I can’t get close anymore. I tried the gap again and cracked my tail even more. What the heck. This gap is tiny, but the bigger setup made me feel like I should do it easy. I have no idea how I was landing so bad. So then I resorted to trying nollie tres (landed a couple really bad ones) and then went for a 3 flip and cracked the board beyond skate condition. Doh.

(setup 8.25 venture wides bones med bushings no washers null wheels)