skate journal: campus solo meh (june 14, 2016 day 166)

Posted in Skate Journal on June 15th, 2016 by corpo

Day 166 in a row. Only 200 more to go.

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Headed up to campus on a beautiful evening. Started at the spot above skating some flatground. After capturing the kickflip above I kind of just started messing around with flippers and then a curb stall trick. Flippers went ok until 360 flip again, I would eventually get a sketchy one, but I wasn’t pleased. I got into front crooks, tried switch crooks and fakie front crooks, got into kick back tail and tried to shove out which felt awesome.

I moved on and got stuck on a line of basics for a bit. Front 50 a yellow curb then manual a curb high manual pad. The front 50 took awhile. Argh. It was dark, it requires a little gap in from a crack and it wasn’t waxed. That’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it. I didn’t quite get the manual clean either. I went to the fitness center area because I wanted to ollie some little rocks, but there was a cop posted up. A short hill bomb and toe drag later I was at a new ledge I hadn’t skated yet, but had already been skate stopped and the lights were off. Doh.

banked ledgy

I ended up at this ledge feeling pretty tired and forced myself to do a few basic ledge tricks. Got noseslide, crooks, front 50, horrible front tail fall off and back 50 stall. Still felt like I was pushing myself a little at least. I hucked away some flippers too, only got b/s flip. No 360 flip or switch flip. I ended by forcing myself to try and ollie the ledge a few times. I did not get remotely close.

(setup 8.25 null awkward vectors deck, thunder 147 HL stock bushings, 3 washers on inside of axles, 50mm bones stf v1, Es Swifts grey/white)