skate journal: some research ledge in the cold, then some poor attempts at flatground (april 30, 2016 day 121)
After a fun morning with the family I set out to enjoy some dry crete. The snow had stopped falling and cleared up immediately. Unfortunately it was replaced with a cold breeze. I started by riding down the long stairs a few times. It was sprinkling/snowing a little constantly, but not enough to stick. I didn’t wax the ledge at all. Probably not a good move. I got noseslide, struggled a bit with noseslide to fakie, crooks first try, never a good locked in back 50, halfcab noseslide, front board pop out, jib bonk front noseslide, a front 50 that took way too long. I tried a lot of flatground in between that I didn’t land. Although I was pretty good on my heelflip ration which has been rough lately. The wind was messing with everything for sure. After awhile I skated the spot in a way that I hadn’t before. Fakie bigflip on the sidewalk below the ledge, pop shove off, then tried a front crook on the ledge. The fakie bigflip took a long time and it was making me mad and the wind was getting to be too much so I left. It started snowing harder around then as well.
So I went to this garage. I was determined to land 10 rare(ish) flip tricks. The warm up trick was b/s flip. I hit my hand on one of the beams. It spooked me and after that I couldn’t really do a trick without worrying about hitting my hand. Even if I timed it around a beam. Ugh. So I went to the lower part of the garage next to it. The concrete was rough, there was a huge puddle and my mood was bad. The only thing remotely fun was trying front pivot kickflips out on a curb. I got close. The best trick I did was probably not focusing my board. I am so sick of this cold weather. Yeah yeah, I know, you should expect this in Colorado. I don’t care. I’m sick of it.
(setup 8.25 null awkward vector, venture lows, bones medium bushings, 3 washers on inside of axles, 51mm stf v2, nbnumeric pj stratford 533 white/gum)