Skate Reanimate

Put a good 20 min in at SoJo on my way home, working on fast cars and still trying to get that 50-50 on the pool coping.

Coming back from a 3 day trip to Boston, I had to get a quick, 30min session in at Sojo on the way home. I worked the bowl with a couple guys who were grinding the pool coping like men half my age (I’m sure they were).

I stopped by SoJo on my way home today and made a number of runs in the bowl, working on little bs smith grinds on the shallow and and bs slash grinds on the deep. There were several other kids skating the bowl tonight, riding pretty hard and fast, so that motivated me to keep trying for more speed and control.

I spent way too much time trying to get rock to fakies on the shallow, but kept hanging up on the pool coping or else pulling back too far and not coming down in time. I ended up rolling my ankle as it got caught under the board. Lots of pain, but an ice bath and epson salt bath later and I’m feeling much better.

I left work on time, had no traffic between 215 and the 106, so I stopped off at the SoJo park for a very quick session, wherein I worked on gaining speed at each dip and corner, and finally tapping the pool coping if only on the bs.

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.