Skate Reanimate

I had a quick, 45 min session at Fairmont with Chad between work and a sales team dinner. I worked on simply rising up to 50-50 in the pawn bowl, and a smoother, faster line in the large bowl.

I had a few extra minutes on my way through Salt Lake, so I stopped at Fairmont for a super-quick session, just to get my mind off of work. I stuck to the pool (most of the rest of the park was wet), and aimed high and fast, which helped me finally get back into the coping of the shallows.

Feels like I’m starting from the bottom of the hill again, but that’s what happens when you break the skating habit at my age, I guess.

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.

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.

I stopped by Fairmont skate park in Sugarhouse on my way north to pick up Wills. Spent a relentless half hour in the pawn bowl with a couple of OMA-worthy gents. I worked on carving those square corners hard and fast–so hard, in fact, that I swear I heard my tail cracking on the corners. That freaked me out, you can bet. I also worked on 50-50s in the 6′ shallows, taking several frightening bails before finally rolling back in on a weak one.

As one of my compatriots said, everything’s a matter of chipping away.