skate journal: brief warm up at research then totally sucking at southern hills (aug 22, 2015 day 226)

good ol' research ledge

Had 30 minutes in the morning after dropping off Ollie before I’d have to bring India to ballet. So I hit the research center. The pain in my right groin was bad at first, but it seemed to warm up quickly. I got most of my basics down. Back noseslide, boardslide popout, noseslide to fakie, crooks, back 50, halfcab noseslide. I forget what I did frontside, but it wasn’t too special. Had some ok flatground tricks going back up the hill.

more my size

grind you basterd

up, up

I got home and India was feeling sick and opted out of ballet. I had told Nullers I would film them when I got home from INdia’s ballet, so instead of telling them I was done early I went to Southern Hills to shred. That was probably the wrong choice as I SUCKED it up big time. I felt horrible. I waxed the curb and tried a ton of front crooks on it. Got none. Could barely do noseslides on the bench. Sucked at flatground. My legs didn’t feel connected to me. It was horrible. The one positive I took away from it was ollieing onto the bench and then the table. It wasn’t perfect, but I was happy to do it. I got one front 50 on a bench, those things don’t grind very good. Tried noseslide 270 shove for awhile, got super close, then decided to lie down and take a nap in the shade. That’s how bad I felt. Then I met up with the Nullers, Riley and Nolan killed it and things were good.

(setup 8.1 null venture lows thunder bushings 52mm stf v3 nb# pj stratford 533 brown/gum)