Had a good night of sleep or something and felt good all day. \u00a0Was good about standing, jumping around, stretching at work and felt great when I left work after a longer than usual day. \u00a0The family had already eaten and was occupied doing homework and whatnot so I boxed up a Null order and delivered it to Fedex then stopped by Savers for something silly for my work White Elephant. \u00a0Then I drove to campus for some skating. \u00a0It was humid as it had rained (yes it’s mid december and it rained instead of snowed) earlier in the day and there was still some puddles on asphalt. \u00a0For whatever reason I had been thinking about a line all day. \u00a0Ollie up the UMC two stair, back 180 off, sw 180, ollie the 4, front 180 the 3 so I was hoping to warm up to that. \u00a0After some fast pushing and cruising I ended up new big Visual Arts building where I did a few slow kickflips to get warmed up. \u00a0I played on the weird long bench with all the sections missing to stop skating. \u00a0I ollied onto one section then would try to ollie to the next section, etc. \u00a0It was way hard and I didn’t feel like trying it much longer so I went up to the UMC ready to battle my line I had been thinking of. \u00a0Unfortunately there was a bunch of dudes standing on top of the two stair so I went back to the fountain area. \u00a0I tried some fast (for me) pop shoves followed by ollieing onto the 5 stair ledge, off then ollie down the 3. \u00a0I was having problems on the pop shove and my board took off toward the two stair so I just left and the cancer stickers were gone. \u00a0The ollie up the two is weird because you have to ollie early because of a big crack. \u00a0It ended up not being so hard after a few tries. \u00a0I would have thought the back 180 would have been really hard, but I guess the ollie up the two set me up perfect for my cheater angle and within a couple I was riding away from those, even going past the crack. \u00a0And I gotta say that was probably the highlight for me. \u00a0I normally suck at back 180s and I was landing them almost every try. \u00a0Now for some stupid reason as I would turn around and head to the 4 stair I would get a weird nervous feeling and stop before the 4 stair. \u00a0I’m not sure what that was about so I finally just ollied the 4 on it’s own and finally the butterfly was gone. \u00a0A few tries later I landed all but the last front 180 of the line. \u00a0Sweet, next couple tries! \u00a0Well, maybe not quite as the back 180 was troublesome for a bit, but I ended up getting the whole line. \u00a0Ollie up the two, back 180 off two, horrible sw 180, ollie the 4, horrible front 180 the 3. \u00a0That set me up going downhill on a bikepath so I tried a halfcab flip and bailed. \u00a0I decided I wanted to do the line better and get the halfcab flip too. \u00a0Next try. \u00a0Ollie up felt good, best back 180 I’ve ever done, sw 180, ollie 4, decent front 180, halfcab flip, kickflip, lots of pushes, powerslide, kickflip a crack, bail a treflip. \u00a0I was so hyped. \u00a0Not sure I’ve ever done 8 tricks in a row before. \u00a0Anyways this set me back up to the weird long bench with the missing sections to ollie over. \u00a0Obviously a lot more warmed up, but somewhat sore from so many stairs (ha ha ha) I did the quick up and ollied 3 missing sections and ollied out first try feeling on top of the world. \u00a0It was still pretty warm out (seriously, I was sweating) so I decided to skate awhile longer and line out some more stuff. \u00a0I wanted to do the quick ollies on the ledge then a treflip. \u00a0That took awhile as both of those tricks were so hard for me. \u00a0At one point I noticed I had cracked my board really bad at some point that night. \u00a0It still had pop, but the crack was 4 layers. \u00a0Ah well. \u00a0Coming the other way I would try a fast (again it’s me so imagine me going about 1\/10 the speed of Busenitz) ollie over some cracks then kickflip a crack gap. \u00a0I ended up getting the lines both ways and the temperature had just started to drop quickly so I went home. \u00a0Totally spent, but super hyped. \u00a0One of the funner days of skating I’ve had this year. \u00a0I love skating by myself once or twice a week. \u00a0I would say it gives me a chance to land more stuff, but really, it just gives me a chance to land stuff I’m too embarrassed\u00a0to do around others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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