Woke up wanting to skate. It was nice out too. Watched a couple videos, texted people and listened to the new Dinosaur Jr. It started looking like rain and plans hadn’t formed so I went and skated flat in front of the house for awhile. I was just getting kind of warmed up before the rain settled in. Doh. Chilled for a few hours then it cleared up. Headed to campus and it was still pretty wet so I skated under the engineering building. The fun double downhill bank spot was blocked off because of construction. Doh. I found a bench that was decent and started trying to skate it. Things started out real slow, but at one point I felt like I was skating great. One way I was doing kickflips over a little crack gap then trying boardslides to fakie. I’ve never been able to do that trick on ledges and once again it stumped me. Coming the other way I would try front noseslide then b/s flip over the crack gap. Never did a good f/s noseslide and never got the b/s flip. Neil called and was gonna come meet up. I moved to the top of the engineering building as it had dried up and hit the double downhill manny pad section. I mostly dorked around, rock walked down the stairs, posed some ollies down the 5 stair, bailed flip tricks and didn’t get the manual. Neil showed up. Rad. We would do a trick then hit the manny pad. Neil ended up getting ollie over a cone on it’s side, manual then nose manual. He did it a couple times. So good. I took awhile to get the manual, but did get it. Then got a line with kickflip the little part of the cone on it’s side, front 180 onto the first pad, sw front 180 off, kickflip up the next one, kickflip off. Pretty hyped on that. Then we moved slightly west were Neil ollied a little gap first try and I would take several tries. I lined it out with a manual. Yippee. Then we kind of headed up campus looking at new stuff until Neil had to leave and I just did soft rock kickflip out on the drama building escalator loading dock. I did quite a few of them. Cool. I was super sore for some reason. It kinda sucked, but I skated hard and had fun. The downhill ride to my car at the end was really fun with lots of little ollies.

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