Thanksgiving session
The night before Thanksgiving I’d decided to take the night off from skating – rest the ankle. Ended up skate commuting over 3 miles anyway, after dropping the car off at the mechanic. Then at the end of the night, I locked my keys in the car and ended up jogging almost 2 miles home to get my wife’s spare key. Thanks to yoga and skateboarding I didn’t even need to stop for a break! Ankle didn’t hurt either. Until the next day.
The next day was yesterday, Thanksgiving! I’ll skip the write up on it. Was done by about 4pm. Decided to catch the last grey rays of the day and bust out some boardslides on a waxed ledge down on Wilshire.
No drills?! Or tre practice!
Skated that ledge for about 35 minutes. Didn’t warm up with any drills, didn’t practice any tres. Time flew by. I rolled smoothly away from a ton of those boardslides, but they were all kind of short. 2 feet. Maybe 2.5 feet. Couldn’t manage to land one longer – needed a higher backside ollie due to the way the ledge was angled. Almost made some 5 footers. Sometimes I got it up and in place but didn’t keep it aligned on the way down, and would rub my wheels on the ledge, falling out of it.
I also needed more balls yesterday. I didn’t commit enough times to the higher half of the ledge.
After the ledge session, I went and skated the waxed Ralph’s curb for about 30 minutes, goofing around, trying to Varial flip onto it. Came close many times.
Was a very rare session for me, not warming up, not doing drills or working on my agenda. I went into it feeling a bit buzzed from the one glass of wine I had during Thanksgiving dinner, so I didn’t really feel like I had the same faculties and facilities. Reduced drive. I was slower, with less balance, even though much time had passed. Lightweight.
Tonight
I keep literally dreaming about doing a fakie ollie into a fakie 5-0 grind into a backside tailslide and then out. I know I could do it if I practiced for 5 or 6 hours. And then I want to go into it via fakie kickflip. That would be another 4 or 5 hours maybe. We’re talking over two week’s worth of skate time, at the expense of some drills and tre practice. (I could be underestimating it. Afterall, I thought I’d have heelflips within a few sessions. Took me much of the summer). Also, I’d need to be at the right curb. I only have two more nights at the place I’m staying, right next to the perfect curb. Unfortunately I don’t see me placing that much time into getting this trick for awhile.
Tonight, as much as I’d love to skate, I need to do some marriage type stuff, and am so worn out from all the work, I don’t see myself pulling another 11pm session. Oh to be an adult relearning how to skateboard.