Surprisingly sore from the flip trick session the day before John and I cruised over to Southern Hills on a nice afternoon. \u00a0We were pleasantly surprised to see the benches freshly painted and slick again. \u00a0John and Nate were getting on the grinds no problem, but my legs were dead. \u00a0Nate straight killed the benches. \u00a0John set up the marathon run challenge that almost killed me. \u00a0Front nose stall on the first bench (you can’t really get enough speed to do anything else), back noseslide the next bench, ollie up the two, ollie onto the rough ledge, ollie the 4 stair, trick on the bench. \u00a0He did it all quick. \u00a0I never got the ollie onto the rough ledge. \u00a0I can’t ollie, it sucks. \u00a0I was feeling pretty bummed, but went over and skated flatground for a bit on the new smooth area. \u00a0Landed quite a few tricks in a few tries. \u00a0Heelflip and 360 flip first tries. \u00a0I blew out a lace and Neil who had just shown up hooked me up with a new one before I could even really tell what happened. \u00a0Awesome. \u00a0Skelly also showed up around now. \u00a0Him and Nate got some boardslides to fakie. \u00a0I finally got on a few 2mph front 50s and got a shove out. \u00a0I was skating pathetically slow. \u00a0That’s what happens to me when I get that tired. \u00a0Toward the end I tried a line with front noseslide\/stall on the first bench, manual the goodcrete, kickflip out of the handicap ramp, ollie the two from the crack, boardslide then a flipper. \u00a0I died in exhaustion attempting a backside flip. \u00a0Right after that Nate racked himself trying a front board 270 out. \u00a0We were both lieing down on the concrete and a family comes biking by. \u00a0So funny. \u00a0Before leaving I finally got a dorky cali grind to manual that I’d been trying for awhile and Nate, Sean and I did some long powerslides in the new super smooth concerete section. \u00a0So fun.Next we went to this newly redone steep bank into a parking garage. \u00a0It’s so gnarly, there is even a kicker in front of it. \u00a0Some one could do some gnarly stuff there for sure. \u00a0It was getting dark though, otherwise it would have been us. \u00a0Just ollieing into it on the steep end is scary. \u00a0There isn’t a car that can make that without bottoming out. \u00a0We left after awhile and went to the mini Wells Fargo q-pipe. \u00a0That was basically the only thing we had enough energy to skate. \u00a0A one foot tall quarterpipe. \u00a0And it was as fun as ever. \u00a0Nate did a couple good back 5-0s to fakie, bluntslide to fakie and almost a couple crazy tricks like front hurricane and front bluntslide. \u00a0Sean was barging it and almost got back 50 from the top part all the way down to the waxed up spot. \u00a0I tried some back tails for awihle, but started trying back smith instead and managed to get a few actual back smith grinds. \u00a0Then I got a couple mediocre back 5-0s to fakie, back tails, back nosegrinds and had a blast. \u00a0Fun ender for a rough day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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