I met Carleigh at Meta. I had just picked up some new shoes to start breaking in and to show what a hypocrite I can be. \u00a0You’ll see. \u00a0We had originally thought of skating Red Curbs if it was raining, but it wasn’t. \u00a0But then when we left Meta it was kind of sprinkling. \u00a0While trying to figure it out it started raining harder so the decision was made. \u00a0Red Curbs. \u00a0We started off doing our own things just skating around and warming up. \u00a0I was having a tough time with the Creature tank of a board. \u00a0With the exception of a test Sans board years ago (yes, you know how that went) I have only skated Generator wood for six years now (Null was originally on Systems then \u00a0Syndrome wood) and it sure felt awkward. \u00a0It took like 10 tries to get a kickflip where the tail touched. \u00a0Carleigh was mostly trying flatground lines. \u00a0I saw lots of kickflips, nollie shoves, etc. \u00a0I failed at nose mannys miserably. \u00a0I failed at almost everything actually. \u00a0Carleigh did some mannies on the short manny pad. \u00a0I got a couple front 180 nose mannies on the short one which is about the extent of that trick for me. \u00a0Carleigh was working on heelflips and slamming hard. \u00a0I was jealous because I was my typical lame self just walking away from bails instead of committing. \u00a0I’ll blame the wide ass board I’m skating. \u00a0I took a long time to get a front lipslide. \u00a0I took forever to get a fakie bigflip. \u00a0For some reason I started trying halfcab nose manuals. \u00a0Some felt like I could do it. \u00a0Most felt like I was just learning how to skateboard (wait, it always feels like that). \u00a0I had a couple back lip attempts that were mostly just ollie over the corner to 90 degree wheel pivot. \u00a0At the very end I was trying front tailslides (got a couple little ones) and we were both trying flatground tricks over and over. \u00a0I saw Carleigh stomp a heelflip then in less than 20 tries land a first ever fakie varial flip. \u00a0Sick! \u00a0I tried nollie f\/s flips and had one that was so close I can’t believe I didn’t get both feet on it. \u00a0It took lots of tries to flip that big board around for treflips. \u00a0Never got a nollie tre. \u00a0Heelflip took awhile too. \u00a0We had fun. \u00a0We skated hard. \u00a0Awesome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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