skate journal: Southern Hills fun then a broken board doh (Feb 15, 2014)
On a day where the forecasted high was 62 with 40mph winds I went to Southern Hills while it was 39 and not windy. Way to go weatherman. I had been entertaining Ollie all morning and then picked up India then brought Ollie to a friends and got to Southern Hills around 3pm. Carleigh, Neil and Blake would meet up after I arrived. I was feeling very arthritic and sore, but very motivated to skate. It helped that they had swept up the school and there weren’t a ton of little pebbles everywhere. I started ollie’ing off the little narrow ledge at the top for a warm up and it graduated into one of the funnest and longest runs I’ve done. Ollie onto the narrow longer ledge, push (I’m not good enough to ollie onto it fast enough to have speed byt the end), front 180 off, halfcab flip, kickflip into the handicap ramp, crooks a bench. I was sincerely stoked. Carleigh showed up around now. She was cruising around warming up and I tried another line starting at the long narrow ledge. Ollie on, kickflip off, back 180 down the two stair, something else. But I never got the back 180. It was weird kickflipping off the ledge because it’s so narrow. My kickflips felt weird. They felt way more popped then normal, but kind of out of control. I guess I normally use some angle. Anyway I eventually landed bad and cracked the tail to the point where it couldn’t be popped. Doh. Neil and Blake arrived. I lost a lot of motivation having to ride my board backwards. I tried some kickflips into the handicap ramp followed by front noseslides on the bench, but that was about it. Carleigh had a lot of back 180’s into the handicap ramp and came real close to a b/s flip. Neil ripped harder then I’ve seen in awhile once he got warmed up. Long lines. Ollie onto the bench in the far corner, ollie north off, noseslide the ledge, back 180 out of the handicap ramp. Switch front 180, kickflip into the handicap ramp, front 50 one foot out the bench. Blake did such a cool trick. Ollie from the top of the two stair onto the middle stair then front shove off. It reminded me of Suciu and his 3 flip onto the stair in Sabotage 3. Jack was supposed to meet up, but I had to bolt because India was stressing over a ballet audition. It felt good to get out and skate, but man I could have gone without breaking my board.