Had the early shift at work so I got out at 3:30. It looks nice and warm in this photo, but it was only in the upper 30s. Which isn’t too bad in the sun, but still, they were forecasting 50s which would have felt way better. This was the spot that Jason and I would meet up and skate all the time several years ago. We even met Nate there. Jason had the longest, raddest front noseslides there. He also had the this rad line with a front board and a chinese nollie. I miss skating here with him. Anyways I was pretty tired and my warming up was really bad. I just did chinese nollies and nose stalls. Eventually I was able to muster up the courage to try kickflips and other tricks. I’ve always had troubles skating right after work, but today was even worse then normal. I kept at it though. I should have brought wax, but the side in the shade is still somewhat slick. That’s the only side I skated. I started with noseslides backside and frontside I ollied on and front 180’d off. It’s narrower up top then it looks because of the openings for the trees. I started landing a few flat ground tricks. I struggled with front 50s for awhile, but got a couple fun ones that felt raw since the concrete is so chunky and not waxed. If I would have waxed it I probably would have had better luck. Came close to back 50. Posed a bunch of kickflip back noseslides. Was almost out of time and and tried a treflip that put me on my butt in a puddle. I couldn’t leave on that note so did another ollie up front 180 off followed by a fakie flip and walked back to my car with some of my pride still intact.

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