skate journal: frozen bushings and legs at research ledge (dec 1, 2016 day 336)

research ledge in da cold

Coldest night of the season so far and I went skating. I just couldn’t handle another garage minimum. I bundled up and went to the research ledge. Immediately it felt colder then I thought it was. It was 30, but with a cold breeze. I started with a cruise down the hill where I tried to do a bunch of tiny little ollies. On one of them I remember seeing a little rock when I took off and of course I landed right on it and slammed onto my knee/hip. It hurt a lot in the cold. Then I mostly just stuck to the ledge as it is somewhat protected from the wind. I did boardslide then noseslide. Then started trying noseslide bigspin out for awhile (shoving backside). Got close, then not so close so went with my favorite. Crooks. Got a couple of bad back 50s. Went to try more, but my bushings had frozen and made skating not so fun. So I went and hung out at Jason’s and it was rad. So glad he’s home!

(setup 8.38 Null Riley deck, Venture 5.8s, Thunder bushings, 52mm Spitfire F4 101a wheels, washers on the outside, swiss bearings, NB# PJ 533 maple/black)