On a cold and windy Saturday I packed up LGJ and was planning on a solo parking garage session. But instead I ended up on campus as the wind didn’t seem bad on the drive. I found myself at the tiny yellow lurb. I was not feeling very good. Blame the weather, my attitude, I don’t know. I tried a warm up line of back 50, nollie front 180, fakie thruster on the stupid flatirons wanna be bank architecture. The back 50 took forever and I don’t think I ever even got a clean one as most started in back 5-0. I was trying to keep to myself as I started to notice that every student had a mask on. Even outside in the wind. Oh well, I felt like I should be wearing one. I never got the line as I kept hanging up on the reentry on the bank. I was very upset with how much I was struggling with the back 50 and even front 5-0s on the little lurb. After a bit I started hucking. Kickflip crooks and front smith kickflips out. I was close to both. I had setup my phone to film in case I got either. Looking back it died in 7 minutes. 7 minutes! I need a new phone. I did commit to the kickflip crooks, but never locked in. I think it would have been more of a kickflip back nosegrind, but that would have been totally fine with me! I tried some front tails too, but they mostly depressed me. I made myself do a line before moving onto another spot. Front 5-0, heelflip, ollie the 3 stair. I almost got it second try, but slid out on the 3 stair ollie (it has cracks before and after making it kind of weird). Then the front 5-0 eluded me for quite some time and I was getting so angry. I was seriously struggling to ollie the 8″ to 5-0 it and I was furious. I would get the line though and it did feel rad. I went to the Roser Atlas area. The wind had picked up again. I went for what I thought would be a very basic warm up line. Back 180 off a ledge, halfcab flip on flat, crooks the ledge. But the back 180 was elusive and making me so mad. I had a couple bad shinner slams from back 180 attempts. Finally got one and was setting up for the halfcab flip and got wheelbite and fell. I lost it. Focused my board. Sat in the cold wind contemplating skateboarding and how disappointed I am in my level of skating. Then I walked to my car as the wind raged and seemed to poke fun at me.

(setup 8.38 null plant life deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.8 titanium hanger with cast baseplate, venom 88a bushings no boardside washer, 52mm bones stf 103a v1, new balance numeric 306 navy size 12, nike sb zoom air insoles)
(pain level 4/10)

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