Two days of skating in a row!? Crazy. Maybe this new job won’t kill off skating entirely…
I skated Fairmont for 30 while waiting for everyone to arrive in SLC for my bday dinner. Worked on gaining speed on carves and lines–nothing big. In fact, I had a hard time just getting up to the coping in the shallow, which prevented me from actually trying anything Fatigue, maybe.
Fairmont’s still my favorite SLC park because the bowls are totally underutilized.
Traffic was a bugbear so I took the 106 exit and took a few runs at the SoJo bowl. I was aiming to tap the pool coping in the shallow sections, and tap I did.
Friday’s apparently adult night at the Springville skatepark–there were lots of 25+ skaters on the mini ramp, which meant good times and a laid back vibe. With the encouragement of some of my peers I worked on fs disasters, bs disasters, fs 50-50s. Limited success, but fun stuff nonetheless. Those bs disasters will take some serious work to get solid on the landings and pop the board anywhere off the coping.
Spent an hour relieving stress and skating the Springville park after work. Lots of little kids today who didn’t know how to take turns or look first. A couple of close calls…
Worked on tail slides and fs 5-0s on the mini ramp with mixed results.
Spent just half an hour in the local parking lot drifting ollies slightly higher by emphasizing my front heel in the slide rather than my front foot. This seems to make them higher and straighter.
First skate session back in the States was at Springville, where I felt great riding on all the terrain.
Skated local Springville park for about an hour, working on steadying out my crouch on 50-50s on the mini ramp, and trying to learn the Old Man Army S-K-A-T-E transition trick, which is some kind of 360 slide. I should have watched the other guys’ videos before going out on my own, because mine came after about a dozen tries, and still looked pretty lame:
From the other guys’ vids it’s clear that I need to do this like a nose 360 in one clean turn. Think freestyle.
I spent a good hour at Fairmont in Sugarhouse. I worked on finding something like a line in the large snake bowl, and keeping some speed in the pawn bowl. A bunch of younger guys were trying to figure out the pawn bowl, which made it fun. I’m no expert at it by any means, but I was able to share what I knew.
Spent another short session at the school parking lot, easing my way back toward kickflips. I’ve been riding parks almost all summer, and have forgotten how great it feels to just cruise around, ollieing up and down curbs and things.
Spent just 20 minutes in a local school parking lot, getting back to a little street, and working the lungs.
