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Skatelog Thursday, 09-09-2010

admin — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 04:10:54 +0000

I spent an awful half hour in American Fork skating after dinner this evening. Well, some might call it skating; I won’t. It was more a series of failed trick attempts, feeble ollies, and slam after slam. Did I finally stress fracture that left wrist?

I blame the early cold, freezing up my old man joints!

Skatelog Sunday, 09-05-2010

admin — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 05:22:47 +0000

I skated the Springville skatepark a couple times today: solo in the cool morning and with David in the late afternoon. I padded up for the larger mini ramp and worked on 50-50s, 5-0s, and rock-n-rolls. Later I tentatively tried 180 airs on the gap between ramps, fs 180 disasters, and gaining something of a line on the park.

Skatelog Saturday, 09-04-2010

admin — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 02:16:01 +0000

David and I skated the American Fork park this afternoon. I worked on carving the big bowl again–probably just 6 or 7 drop ins. Then we hit the street course, working on gaining height on the short bank, and ollieing the 3 steps. Not a lot of progress tonight, but at least I’m getting up to the vert on the big bowl.

Skatelog Friday, 09-03-2010

admin — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 06:21:09 +0000

I dragged Willem to the local elementary school for about half an hour tonight, where I worked on pop shove-its, manuals, and kickflips, landing just 3 or 4 out of 30.

Skatelog Thursday, 09-02-2010

admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:35:49 +0000

I skated the Orem skatepark on my lunch break for half an hour, working on bs 180 disasters, boneless ones, and just getting the feel of that park again. The weather is quite becoming for afternoon skating this week.

Later in the evening David and I skated the Springville park for over an hour, spending most of our time on the mini ramp, working on 50-50s, fs 50-50s, etc. I overdid it, but didn’t kill myself. Landed just 1 out of 10 kickflip attempts.

Skatelog Wednesday, 09-01-2010

admin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:23:25 +0000

I skated a local church parking lot with David tonight, working on grinding a sewer grate and kickflips. Landed 3 out of 30 in my night practice. For some reason I felt closer to nailing it tonight, though I barely landed any at all.

Skatelog Sunday, 08-29-2010

admin — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 02:49:25 +0000

David returned from CA and I’ve not yet succumbed to the cold that’s going through my house, so we headed North to American Fork’s skatepark where I worked on ollies onto the box, 5-0s on the big quarter pipe, ollies over the prostate orange barrel, ollies down the bank steps, and carving the big bowl. David caught a little footage of me learning the latter:

Unskatelog Thursday, 08-26-2010

admin — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:42:01 +0000

I haven’t skated since Sunday, thanks to a wicked ankle roll at the AF skatepark. Crunch crunch. So I’ve been doing physical therapy exercises instead at night, and that’s straining my calf and thigh muscles nicely. So even though there’s no skating going on, at least I have no excuse for failing to work out my knee. Looking forward to the weekend, though.

Skatelog Saturday, 08-21-2010

admin — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 04:35:15 +0000

After watching some video of pool skating last night I was determined to learn to carve a big bowl. So early this morning I drove out to Payson’s skatepark, which has a fairly small clover bowl and a slightly larger kidney bowl. I spent half an hour dropping into and practising carves and pumps on the kidney bowl, though I didn’t quite hit the coping. I then spent another half an hour just skating around the park. In the little 5 ft bowl I was practising 50-50s and 5-0s when I slipped on the coping and fell to the flat on an unprotected wrist. I’ve hit that wrist so many times I’m lucky I’ve not broken it.

Later in the evening after Jamie and the kids had gone off to Bear Lake I drove North to the American Fork skatepark just before twilight. I spent an hour practising dropping in on the big clover bowl–7ft with 1ft of vert in the shallows, maybe 9 or 10 ft in the deep end. This was my first time dropping in on vert since I was probably 15, and it went alright–I only bailed on my first attempt, and made the next 7 or 8 easily.

I did have a hard time keeping speed–probably because I was still a bit spooked during the drop-ins, but did manage to make it around the deep end in a carve, and usually back up around the shallows.

I spent another hour skating the rest of the AF park. I worked on ollies to manual up the box, bs 180s on the hip, and 5-0s and 50-50s on the big quarter pipe. I tried to grab indie on an ollie off the box, but choked and rolled my ankle enough that I thought it might have fractured. Thankfully it didn’t, and only aches a bit now.

I accomplished just a bit today, but both sessions were stoking and I’m anxious to go again tomorrow (though I’ll probably wake to some pretty tight pains).

Skatelog Friday, 08-20-2010

admin — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 04:23:07 +0000

I spent just half an hour in a local parking lot working on pop shove-its and kickflips. Again, my kickflip attempts were poor, as I’m still trying to land them while rolling and can’t quite stomp that landing.