Had a great day. Woke up early, went to a movie with Liz (Moonrise Kingdom super good) while the kids when to a different movie (Brave). Then got paid $30 to test drive a Lincoln luxury mobile because of some promotion they were having at the mall by the theater. Cool that paid for lunch! Then napped in the 100 degree heat awhile, did some ballet with India (sometimes you gotta make sacrifices being a dad and it seems super good for the legs so why not?), a short bike ride with India (to look at skate spots ha), some basketball with Ollie then I biked over to the mall because I had seen a ledge earlier in the day that looked fun. I biked around the mall a bit looking for what I’d want to skate first. I’ve never skated the mall before and was kinda weirded out what people would think and how quickly security would probably show up. I started at some little downhill sidewalk that would get me moving fast enough that by the end a powerslide was a tiny bit scary. The first section of sidewalk was level then it dropped into the hill. I manualled the first section, then went for a line of nose manual 180, sw 180 then powerslides. The speed for the sw 180 was scary, I never got it.

Then I found this ledge. It took me a bit to get a boardslide pop out, but when I did I followed it up with a little run to the opposing downhill sidewalk and did a slow kickflip off a little kicker then had a fun powerslide or two.

Then I went to the ledge I had saw earlier. It was darker then I hoped, but still skateable. The run up for b/s was kind of non-existent unless you ollie up the curb, but I was trying to stay hidden so everything backside was one little push. I ended up getting quite a few tricks total. Most were horrible. The roundedness of the ledge made it harder to lock into grinds then I would have thought. Front 50, front 5-0, back noseslide fakie, back crooks, kick back 50 (super duper bad), back 50, front 180 fakie f/s 50 f/s halfcab out, front tailslide and almost a front tail shove out but I saw security pull up so I just pushed off all fast and decided it was time to head home anyway. Oh yeah I had the new Henry Clay People album up pretty loud on my headphones. That album rules.

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