skate journal: research ledge weirdness (july 1, 2016, day 183)
After a day of working from home I went to the research ledge feeling slightly better then the last few days which isn’t saying much. I started by riding down the Max stairs a couple of times then pushing down the hill going fast. As I was going back to the top to ride the hill again three cars pulled up and stopped in the middle of the road and set up a barricade at the entrance of the street. So there was a campus parking attendant right where I wanted to start my lines. Weird. Then I was skating the ledge for a bit and spotted a CU employee coming for a smoke break. I did the quick noseslide on the ledge to try and claim that area as my own. It worked, but she sat on the ledge right next to it smoking. She was nice. Then another employee came and joined her and they sat there smoking while I bailed trick after trick. It’s kind of pathetic how little I can handle smoke these days. I was coughing. I did my typical order of tricks. Boardslide pop out, noseslide, noseside to fakie, crooks. The crooks took a bit. Then they left. I was doing alright with flatground too. I hope this heelflip streak keeps going, I’ve been landing them. Treflip was never clean, but I got a couple. I actually got pretty insanely close to cab flip. Tried a bunch of switch tres, they don’t seem possible until I land and I realize I’m somewhat close. Gotta keep at that one because I know Josh is going to bring it for the game of OLDFART. Front 50s were impossible at first and then I figured out that I was ducking my head weird for fear of hitting the wall. Once I figured that out I was able to land 1/10 (ugh). I got one back 50. And it was funny because it was when this dude came and sat on the far part of the ledge to smoke. He was wearing skate shoes so I figured he should no better. He realized what was up and moved away after that. Got a bad halfcab noseslide, bad front noseslide. I was feeling better, but for whatever reason I didn’t have much energy and it showed. Oh well.
(setup 8.25 null awkward vectors deck, thunder 147 HL stock bushings, 3 washers on inside of axles, 51mm bones stf v1, New Balance Numeric PJ 533 burgundy)