Kinda sore and tired, but skated flat for awhile in front of the house. \u00a0Was gonna hang with the kids, but they were just watching a movie so after no good tricks I left to Valmont. \u00a0There was a big puddle there from the rain earlier. \u00a0I waxed up the ledge real good anyway because now the spot was like a gap over ledge. \u00a0I started trying mostly noseslides popped up to crooks, but never got one up into crooks. \u00a0I got a few front 50s over but struggled. \u00a0Out of nowhere I tried a nollie flip and landed it. \u00a0WTF?!?!?! \u00a0I giggled for a bit super hyped and almost landed the next one too. \u00a0That’s either the 3rd or 4th nollie flip I’ve landed and the last one was on Campus by the banked manny pad when I was skating with Nate and Jack a few years ago. \u00a0I started trying a line of a fast kickflip (that left me with enough speed to do a trick on the curb on the far north side of the parking lot without pushing) followed by a back pivot then front 50 over the water. \u00a0I think I got that once or twice.I was pretty beat, but Nate ended up being able to skate late so I couldn’t pass up skating with him again. \u00a0I went and picked him up and we went back to Valmont. \u00a0Nate of course front 50d the water like it was nothing. \u00a0He tried a bunch of noseslide nollie heels out. \u00a0Some were close. \u00a0Pretty good considering he can barely do noseslides. \u00a0We played a no holds barred game of SKATE which means Nate can do nollie and switch tricks. \u00a0Things started out bad when Nate missed the first kickflip and the double or nothing. \u00a0He made a bit of a comeback, but missed a lot of his tricks and will have to live with that loss for a long time in Portland. \u00a0Ha. \u00a0After SKATE Nate and I kept trying noseslide variation. \u00a0He was trying nollie heel out and I was trying to go into crooks. \u00a0At one point I got a first try 2mph front tail on the low part and Nate back 50d over the water. \u00a0Nate also landed his first ever switch front big heel. \u00a0Ridiculous. \u00a0Since I had landed a very rare nollie flip I went for the trifecta of nollie flip tricks I can do. \u00a0I tried nollie varial flip for awhile before getting a bad one. \u00a0Then I tried nollie treflip forever while Nate tried switch treflip. \u00a0Kind of appropriate considering we both learned those tricks at the same time. \u00a0After a good 20 minutes I finally got the nollie tre and Nate pretty much got my back with a switch tre. \u00a0Sick! \u00a0I was super exhausted, but man what a fun session and wow I will miss Nate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kinda sore and tired, but skated flat for awhile in front of the house. \u00a0Was gonna hang with the kids, but they were just watching a movie so after no good tricks I left to Valmont. \u00a0There was a big puddle there from the rain earlier. \u00a0I waxed up the ledge real good anyway because […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skate-journal"],"wppr_data":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1j9K4-zS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}