So lately I've been trying to get back in to street skating and it has not been an easy task. After spending most of my time at parks over the last several years, I have forgotten a lot of the pros and cons. These came back to my memory pretty quickly though. The cons came first. To begin with, I forgot how paranoid you have to be when you are starting to feel a spot out. The first time you skate somewhere you have no clue how vigilantly it will be patrolled or enforced, so its really hard not to feel like somebody is watching you. The place I went to had a lot of no trespassing signs and so it felt like the message was clear, if you get caught here it is better to run away. Then comes the calm of when you realize that either no one cares or there is simply no one around to notice. Once that settles in, you loose a bit of the adrenaline though. The second negative I had forgotten about was how much real concrete hurts. Sure, I am used to falling at parks, but regular concrete just cheese shreds your skin. I've apparently gotten soft, because I'm used to getting more of a carpet burn than road rash these days. So finally, I decided to just try to ollie this little four stair. Well, that didn't turn out to well, but I did eventually get a small little ollie off of it.
After finally getting eaten up on a stupid ollie, I tried to hit the little rail but that didn't work out either.
Nice and Juicy
So yeah, after bonking the rail like a million times it became pretty clear that I need to work on my flatland ollie. It's rough, I can barely ollie up on a bench now. It made me miss the days when I could get up on picnic tables without too much trouble. So yeah, I really miss me ole ollie (as shown below.)
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