Well here's the first installment in my skate journal. I've been geekily reading my friend Glen's skate journal for the last year or two and like the idea of being able to look back and remember days skating or if nothing else see how I've progressed or over time.
Went to the Ed Benedict Skatepark today because it is amazingly fun. The only problem is that it is like 7 miles from my house. So I ride my bike there. Which is tiring. On the way to the park I was testing out my new clipless pedals which resulted in me almost falling over at an intersection and eventually eating shit on a crazy wavy and broken sidewalk about 5 blocks from the skatepark. I got to the skatepark with a bleeding elbow and a bruised ego. Started off trying to gauge where was the least busy part of the park to get warmed up at. Ended up skating one of the granite benches and a bank to ledge to get warmed up. Got some long 50s and a nollie tailslide before starting to move to other parts of the park. I spent most of my day skating the ridiculously slick 10" tall ledge up in the middle of the mess of people. Got first try front 5-0 and lipslide but struggled for a front nosegrind. Ended up getting a nosegrind 180 and nosegrind shove before moving to some backside tricks. I seem to be horrible at back lipping a whole ledge so I ended up getting on half way and landed it first try. Got me hyped. I ended up landing my first back lip back shove out and a decent back smith with speed. Had a fin time at the park even though I was sore from the bike wreck. Hopefully I can find a good ledge near my house soon so I can save myself the 13 mile round trip ride on my bike.
Back lip shove! You rip
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