skate journal: struggling through another arthritis flare up at the research center (aug 12, 2014)

Went to the research center after work on a pretty hot evening. My first attempt to ollie up the curb resulted in me running into it and almost slamming. Great. I’m not even sure anymore if it’s actually ‘arthritis’ I have anymore, but basically my whole body feels weird and I have zero confidence. Rather then go home and rest or something any normal person would do I stubbornly kept attempting to skate. I got a couple noseslides to get things going and even manualled the curb around the corner. Got some crooks, front 50, even a back 50 or two, some really short front noseslides. Flip tricks weren’t so good. The treflip eluded me again. Couldn’t do hc noseslide either. There were these two longboards going down the ‘hill’ trying to powerslide. They were such dorks. Made me feel better about myself.