September 06, 2009

Hot hot hot. So fucking hot these days. I had huuuuuuge expectations for today...which of course fell flat. What's new right? Well, I had a revelation today. I realized that I am not that good of a skateboarder by today's standards. I used to not really think about it too much and just did whatever I felt like and that was that. However, lately my days have been filled with keeping up on current events and watching videos from the up-and-coming youths, which is really putting a damper on my self esteem and forcing me to face reality – big shuvs are out of the question, big spin shuvs are plausible, and shuvs are do-able. Enough of my self loathing and degradation, I will get back to it.



Today we started out downtown. We went to go hit up a wallride at a dilapidated building, only to find that shit had been leveled. Great. Strike one. Then we went to this green box spot where I dreamed of doing a back tail big spin out. Ha! I could barely get on the fucking tail, and that stressed me out quite a bit, which doesn't take much these days. Luckily Sam came through with a switch crook to regs. I snapped a pic, but no footy fool.



Then we hit up a ledge spot in Linda Vista. It woulda been fun, but it was blazing and I had a headache. Sam smithed the fuck out of the high ledge though. That was pretty much it.



So then we headed up to Garfield Elementary where I summoned my board to meet up with my feet after a fakie shuv so that we could go into a manny. That shit showed up but took off immediately and forced my ass into a bit of a fall that severely bruised my ego and my shin. I didn't want to give up on the spot so I started trying a fake backtail big spin. I failed at that and ended up just doing a shuv out. Whatevs.




I dropped Sam off at his whip and he was gracious enough to follow me to the ledge behind Vons where I miraculously landed a backside to fakie pivot grind and nose grind. Well, not really the nose grind but the pic looks sic and will take up space on the page to make it look like I am tighter then I really am. That's it.