skate journal: solo campus tired fun (Oct 18, 2012)

Posted in Skate Journal on October 19th, 2012 by corpo

New board day!

Went up to Meta to sell some wheels then rolled into campus. I have been really tired lately. I don’t know why, but I think I need to stop taking a naps because every morning I wake up too early. Anyways, it was pretty nice out. I just cruised down the main path for awhile. The new brick section is pretty fun. I ended up in front of Macky auditorium just kind of dorking around ollieing up/off/onto curbs and trying to get warmed up. I haven’t stretched as much lately since apparently it’s not good before skating so my body felt weird. I managed a first try manual across from Macky Dr then found a jersey barrier to wallride and another shorter one to do a little noseslide to fakie on. Some more pushing and I ended up at the new area that Nathan Fantasia did the awesome gap to nosegrind on. Someone waxed up the edges of the ledge nearby and I skated that for awhile. I would do a kickflip over a little flat gap before backside tricks. I got boardslide, noseslide, noseslide fakie and crooks (kind of) before trying noseslide shoves. The frontside side is a little taller. I got front board and front nose to fakie before trying front 50s which would have been pretty tall for me. I got into it, but never grinded right or landed it. A couple other skaters showed up. They were really weird. One of them had half a ski pole with a GoPro mounted on it filming his friend who as far as I can tell didn’t actually land anything other then back 180s. They asked if I had wax so they could wax up a picnic table that was on top of a curb but the dude couldn’t get even close to skating it anyway. It was weird. They were nice enough, but when he tried a front 50, got way closer to me, then beamed me and said ‘oh that’s not so hard’ I decided to leave. Like I said I’ve been really tired lately which makes me more cranky then normal and I was on a solo mission anyway. I ended up near on the north side of the basketball stadium. I haven’t skated them before, but I had remembered there were a few sets of stairs down a little hill and that seemed kind of like fun even though my knees were hurting pretty bad. Turns out it was 4 flat 4 flat 3. All seperated by a lot going down a not-so-steep hill. I thought it would be pretty easy to ollie all of them. Then I remembered I can’t ollie or skate fast. Doh. The top 4 has a big crack right in front. So instead I would hit an awesome yellow curb, ollie up the sidewalk for the second 4 then the 3. Well, that was the goal anyway, basically all I did was do slappy front tails, front 50s and a front 5-0 on the yellow curb followed by bails down the 4. Until I did a good 5-0 then I finally committed to the 4 and scooted off the 3 terrified. Oh well it was fun. I walked back towards the car thinking I might call it a night. But then I ended up at the art building that has the great concrete, did a kickflip and decided I should skate flat for awhile which ended up being really fun. It’s slightly downhill and I did back 180 then halfcab flip. Better/faster back 180 followed by fakie bigflip. Pop shove followed by treflip. Heelflips. That’s about it. I contemplated skated after that but instead I went home.