Solo mission to the Basemar shopping center which is only about a mile from my house.  There is a weak little bank along a bikepath that I started out on dorking a few tricks like disaster reverts and stuff.  Then I went to the ollie bump for awhile and amazed myself at how impossible it is for me to ollie higher than 3 inches. It took me at least 5 tries to get a decent ollie over a cardboard box.  Ugh.  I had a little run where I manualled the landing of the kicker then ollied into the bikepath bank and 180’d out of it.  Yippee.  I was about to try stuff over the cardboard box when a drunk bum popped out from a dumpster and scared the crap out of me.  He was stumbling all over the landing and stuff so I was over it and rolled over to the curved ledge nearby on campus.  If I ever manual that thing I would be so happy.  I ended up getting kicked out after only a couple warm up ollies.  Then it was flatground time where I almost rolled my ankle on a 360 flip.  I don’t know how I didn’t.  It was one of those weird bails where I thought for sure my ankle was done.  Thankfully not.  The area I was skating is uphill one way, downhill the other.  I have had this phobia of downhill skating all my life and decided to just deal with it.  It ended up working out and I even put together a few lines.  kickflip, b/s 180, halfcab flip, frontside flip.  front shove, varial flip, fakie big flip.  heelflip, no comply finger flip, 360 flip.  Most everything I landed was landed horribly except for a few heelflips.  For some reason heelflips felt amazing.  Fun solo session.

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