skate journal: being old sucks (Oct 3, 2009)

I attempted to skate on Friday too, but my achilles was hurting so bad I couldn’t push.  Ugh.  Tried again on Saturday and it was a bit better, but still sucked.  We started at a bank spot that I’ve never skated before and that spot is so sick.  It’s got a waxed bank where you can go over some holes and a shorter ledge.  I got a couple weird back hurricanes over it where I turned to forward the wrong way.  My legs didn’t have it in them to pop onto the little ledge.  Ugh.  Fuzz was ripping of course.  Brian and I were stressing over what we could do that would be filmed.  John straight showed up Reed Goodman.  Ha.  Jake had some good front  lipslides over the hole.Next we went to Fairview where I was to try my stupid kickflip noseman dumptruck.  I didn’t get close.  I did get frustrated though.  My heel started acting up and I was over it.  I don’t really feel like doing another 2 mile an hour trick anyway.  I lurked or filmed the rest of the day.