I got off work too late to make it to Skatuary with Riley, Bernie and crew. I’m not sure I really wanted to go anyway though. And I had decided I just couldn’t skate in my garage again so I loaded up Ledgy and went to the IHOP garage. I should have hit up some people, but for some reason I don’t anymore. Gotta change that. So I started with a couple runs of ollies and powerslides before laying into the Fullerton spin since I needed to do it for the game. It took awhile and pushing switch uphill to get speed was hard. I had a good slam on one, tore up my knuckles on another and finally landed one. Fun start.

Then I brought out Ledgy and started with front 50s quicker then normal. I was trying to line things out a couple flippers above the ledge, but then a homeless lady started changing near where I was starting so I kind of just stuck to the ledge after that. I still hucked some flippers, but not as much, and I really didn’t land much of anything. After front 50s I tried front smiths and got remotely close. I would skate it backside going uphill, but the hill was a lot less steep then I remembered so it really didn’t matter. I got noseslide and crooks pretty quick and then started the back 50 battle. I don’t know what it is about Ledgy that scares me so much, but it really brings out the worst in me. It’s so short that you can’t really grind much and have to get off right after getting in. So I got hung up on back 50 for close to an hour. It was so depressing. I did land one and it felt so insanely easy that it made me even more depressed. But I had a fast halfcab noseslide that eased the pain a little. I was hucking flip tricks and not landing anything. I tried a bunch of fakie nosegrinds and didn’t land any. I ended trying halfcab crooks (got kind of close) and front tails. I did a little front tail stall and called it a night. It was a depressing night, but I am happy to have finally gone out to a parking garage instead of doing the stationary skating in my garage.

(setup 8.25 null venture 5.2 hi’s 3 washers inside 52mm spitfire 99a F4 venom 91a bushings nb# pj stratford 533 patriot)

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