skate journal: Got a nice bad cold for the weekend, but at least I like my trucks now and got to skate with Ollie for a bit (Nov 3, 2012)
I guess I’m not built to grind. I had actually got these Thunder trucks from Meta the day before the Indy’s from Crisis. For some reason I thought I would like the Indys more and I’d just return the Thunders. Nope. Friday night I went to sleep super early feeling pretty good and was looking forward to a full day of skating on Saturday. I ended up waking up around 3am and coughing like crazy for a couple hours. Ugh. Guess my cold caught up with me. So after attempting to sleep it off I got up and Nugget helped me set up some trucks I would hopefully like more. Thunders with a Budweiser graphic. I like Budweiser and I like Thunder. Perfect. Got a bunch of calls to go skate and was thinking of piling in with TF to go skate somewhere, but I was still feeling rotten and decided to bail. Instead I sat around and watched some skate videos (5 Boro, Think and the Phili video This Time Tomorrow), took a nap and recruited Ollie to come skate for a bit.
We went to the area around Valmont & Foothills. We didn’t cover a lot of ground, but hit some fun stuff. I was feeling pretty tired and stiff for obvious reasons (I’m sick for those who can’t remember the paragraph right above this). First thing I remember was trying to ollie a little median and I told ollie if he ollied up on the sidewalk and 180’d off I’d do it. I did. Ollie rules. We found a nice two sided curb nearby (not the one in the photo) which I did my first grinds on the new trucks on. Tried a few front lip transfers, but failed. I have been scared of that trick forever and committing to it on a ledge that doesn’t end was the hard part for me. Ollie had a couple little boardslides. Then we went across the street and ended up at the area above that had another double sided curb that was fun to slappy up. Ollie grind it pretty far too. We went back to the previous area and hit a little manny pad for a bit where I couldn’t front 180 nose manual. Ollie was laughing a bunch though. We hit a two stair area, but I started to feel extra tired and wanted to bail. Ollie started skating harder at that point, trying shove it’s and stuff and said he wanted to skate a little more. Maybe tomorrow kid. Ha. Oh, notice no complaining about the trucks? I guess I’m not old or good enough for Indys.