skate journal: Sol Ramp again with Bernie this time (Jan 14, 2013)

fakie pivot

So I’m not sure exactly what happened, but it appears that I injured my right rotator cuff a bit. I would like to claim this happened skating, but it didn’t. It either happened while fixing up Rampy or even more embarrassing it was probably while playing Just Dance on the Wii with India. Either way it got worse throughout the day at work and I was going to bail on going to Sol, but I didn’t. Most people bailed on skating, but Bernie said he was down. I got there first and was taking a little cruise around run and slammed right onto my right shoulder. Great. It hurt bad now. I probably should have stopped skating, but I didn’t. I was having fun and within a few runs and did every trick I’ve done there recently in one run. Awesome. I started working on frontside beanplant to tail when Bernie showed up. He made some excuses about being scared of the ramp and then ripped it. Frontside 5-0s, front tails, front d, back 5-0, fakie pivots, and almost a first try kickflip pivot. Bernie rules. Nothing but fun. At the end I got one of the beanplant things. I’ve done a couple of these on Rampy, but this is the first time it felt real. I did it super slow though and Allan of course gave me a bunch of crap for how I did it. We did a couple flippers though and Allan said “Yeah will you got treflips so I’ll shut up.” Ha. It took a few tries, but I did get one and of course Allan had to make fun of how little pop it had. Geez, my shoulder wasn’t working dude. Ha. It was funny. Bernie landed a bunch of first try flippers. Then we left into the 4 degree cold (Fahrenheit).