skate journal: late night solo valmont (May 4, 2011)
Kind of worn out feeling and had just sat around and had a movie/popcorn date with India (Despicable Me). Decided I should go skate and get them new clown shoes broken in. I refer to them as clown shoes because of the colors and the fact that they feel about two sizes too long. Anyways, I was pretty motivated once I got to Valmont surprisingly. I mostly skated the manny pads and after a few flatground kickflips settled into a couple line attempts. Going one way I was trying to do a speedy manual, nose manual on the next one, front 180 up the curb, f/s halfcab flip off. I was trying to go fast enough on the first manual that I wouldn’t have to push again. It took a bit, but I did get it. By the time I got to the f/s halfcab flip I was going pretty slow, but whatevs, I was hyped. Kickflips are the best way for me to break in shoes. So going the other way I was doing kickflip up the curb, kickflip off the curb then trying kickflip manual. I got this one too with a scrape. But the kick manny took forever. I must have done 100 kickflips total. Since I had gotten the f/s halfcab flip line I started trying another ridiculous line for me. Nose manny, manual front 180 out the next one, front shove up the curb, b/s flip off. The front shove was the initial roadblock, then for some reason I started becoming unable to do nose manuals. It was really annoying. I tried a few other flippers and long nose mannies when I would mess up. I couldn’t get a treflip in these shoes to save my life. I slammed a lot and it felt good. I tried ollie’ing off the loading dock a couple times and slammed both times. Total wheel bite slams. Ugh. St Julien will never happen.