skate journal: i actually skated a little!!! lafayette park (March 5, 2012)
A nice warm spring feeling day! I went out to Lafayette and met up with John and the Meta crew (Max, Sean, Davis). They were skating the tiny tranny in the middle of the park. Max, Sean and John killed it too hard for me to hang with them. Max and John had 10+ trick runs going. Crazy. I dorked around being really mellow for awhile. It was fun being outside at night and it wasn’t cold. I got a little boardslide on the black ledge. I know it’s nothing folks, but it felt good, came super easy and made me feel better. I went over to the minibowl with John for awhile. We were both working on stuff until he did all of his tricks in one run then moved on to do hammer lines like ollie the 3 then front 50 the hubba. I didn’t land much in the mini bowl, but I did get a few Rampy tricks like back willy/nosegrind (in my head it’s a crooks and I’m pretty sure that if you shot the photo from below the ground looking straight up it might look like I’m posted up in crooks ha), back 50 to fakie, front d and almost fakie pivot fakie. Fun. Back to the manny pad I did a little front board, slappy manual (ollie to rock, then bounce up to manual) and then a slappy manual rock tap out. Man that felt good. Rearry good. It was first try and I think having the smaller board helped with the control to do it so easy. Awesome. I got a noseslide on the bump to ledge that felt good. I did a couple bad kickflips that didn’t hurt at least, a sloppy fakie bigflip then another fakie bigflip that felt amazing. I was giggling like crazy. I haven’t been able to do tricks like this in awhile. Davis and Sean were murdering the flyout over a trashcan. Sean did the steeziest shifty ever. Davis did a nollie tre on flat at one point and I was like “yes I want to try that too!”. Almost got it in the first few tries, but the lights shut off and it escaped me. Oh well, I skated! I think I’m gonna have to stick to skateparks and mostly still skate tranny for awhile, but wow, I see some light at the end of the tunnel. I’m really sore now (writing this the day after) so I’m not sure when I’ll be able to get back at it though.