Biked to campus on a lethargic Sunday trying to find something fun to skate. Instead I started at the Kittridge flagstone ledge. I had biked there since our car broke down. As soon as I stepped on my board it felt so incredibly wrong. I never did anything worth note but one halfcab flip felt okay. Then I biked to a nearby curb and tried kick back tails for a while and got remotely close before ultimately sitting down in and giving up.
Got out for a bit to skate on a warm day before graduation stuff would begin. I had switched setup again and did not like it. 8.3 with 149 thunders. After some warming up I started trying a line of switch front nose, halfcab flip, ollie onto the c ledge then shove off. Never got the shove. In fact ollies felt super weird and I don’t understand why. About the only thing that felt good were crooks on the metal bench. Until I start imagining shove out (the hard way) and then I couldn’t crook anymore. I did manage to finally 5-0 the cinder block ledge. It was supposed to be a 50 and it was incredibly slow, but it’s the first time since I hurt my achilles. So I may have been overall quite bummed, but that part did cheer me up.
On a rainy night I arrived to Square House. I had been feeling a little under the weather but the session would get me feeling better. I never ended up doing a run on the ramp as Dave was getting going on the street and I joined him. There was a new bank to curb and little qp that was interesting. Both Dave and Saul fell on the kink at the bottom of the bank. We wouldn’t get a whole lot on it although the young kids that were there were able to line out a bunch of tricks. Bryan showed and we mostly lined out the new little ledge for a while which was fun. I think at one point I had a line of kickflip to fakie, halfcab noseslide, switch noseslide 270 shove. I would also get really close to noseslide 270 shove and somewhat close to halfcab noseslide 270. Bryan struggled to get his patented fakie bigspin tailslide, but when he did he added 270 shove out. Eventually the ledge session came to an end and we were lining things out. Dave had joined back, Tom was there as was Kyle. Tom had good back tails and switch back 50s. I tried a line of crooks the bump to ledge then noseslide 270 shove and still couldn’t get it. Dave was shredding did shove up the euro like 2nd try, lining out the bank to curb to bigger qp and the bank. At the end Brian watched as I could not land a slow treflip and Dave could learn noseblunt slides across the pyramid. Fun session. I’m missing a lot of the action but it feels like an eternity since I wrote it.
