Another frigid winter night. \u00a0About 8 degrees. \u00a0UGH. \u00a0Nate and I wanted to do something different so we drove downtown and parked next to the side entrance to the St Julien parking garage. \u00a0We went down the side stairs unnoticed and found a mostly dry cooling parking garage with tons of parking blocks for us to shralp. \u00a0I say “cooling parking garage” because it seemed to get colder by the minute. \u00a0It started off pretty warm, but by the time we left we could see our breath. \u00a0The parking garage was also covered in at least a quarter of an inch of dust. \u00a0Yuck.We ended up at a group of oddly arranged blue parking blocks. \u00a0You couldn’t really grind or slide them too easily because the ends either ran into puddles or pillars. \u00a0But they were fun to try stuff over in lines which we did for awhile. \u00a0I can’t remember all that went down at that point, we were mostly just kinda dorking around. \u00a0At one point I tried to sw front 180 a puddle then kickflip a parking block that was right after it (by “right after it” I mean 20 feet which isn’t much setup when your old and slow like me) and I got it. \u00a0I even pushed switch before the 180. \u00a0I think Nate did a nollie shove over one followed by a no comply on another. \u00a0He’s got good no complys. \u00a0He said it’s the old man 8″ board that allows him to do old man tricks so well. \u00a0We settled in on trying stuff over a parking block for awhile. \u00a0Nate put down a ton of tricks of course. \u00a0Nollie, nollie shove, nollie 180s, 180s, halfcabs both ways and a banger at the end – nollie flip. \u00a0I struggled with kickflips, but got some as well as 180s, a sketchy pop shove, sw front 180 and a horrible backside flip. \u00a0But it’s definitely the first backside flip I’ve done over something and after the sketchy one I was getting close to doing a good one. \u00a0Nate started doing the little dump truck tricks where you ride into a curb and put the nose on then transfer to the other side. \u00a0After a couple regular ones he ended up doing all kinds of variations. \u00a0180s both ways, shoves both ways and attempts at nollie b\/s flip out and more. \u00a0It was rad. \u00a0I couldn’t do the regular transfer, but after tons of tries I got a nollie back shove transfer. \u00a0Felt really fun. \u00a0We left the frigid garage after ollieing onto a very narrow sidewalk going down the hill of one of the exit ramps. \u00a0SUPER fun and sketchy. \u00a0It’s about a foot wide with a wall next so it feels like your going to hang up at any second and go flying. \u00a0By the end your going fast. \u00a0We both did it first try though and it was a great ender on a fun evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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