Skating the town I grew up in and hitting some old spots. Kinda nuts to see that there is NO ONE skating street in this city at all. Brand new park with granite blocks and no stoppers. No one has waxed them. Shits weird. The old ledges around town and shit haven't been waxed in at least 10yrs. So I skated some small ass gaps at the new county courthouse, ollieing til i was too tired to walk. Figure if I get comfortable with small ones I might be able to move up a bit again and all that. Realized that the only difference between a foot high drop and a 5 foot drop is about 1 second time and a lot more pain if you bail. Focus and breathe grasshoppa!
Anyways, it was the first time I skated since my 36 bday last week and it was really fun to skate a metal cellar door for an hour. Start in parking lot, Ollie up curb 1 push, pop onto cellar door because there is an inch high lip and either pivot or roll back switch. Back when, i used to have my heel flips, shove its, and fs 180s on this spot but since this was my first time skating a cellar door or any bank in close to 10 years so the up and down was rewarding enough. Got a lil accidental switch nose grind on one of the tries. Ive got 3 more days/nights before I leave and want to land/film a 180 on it.
Also drove to this parking garage where we used to get faded and skate. All the wax has worn off every ledge but the Manny pads were alright. Back then I used to think these gaps were small as fuck, like 6 inches up 4feet over 2feet down. I had my bag of tricks up and over from both angles (6in up and over as well as 2ft up and over). Now im blown away how easy it used to be!!! I can still Ollie up that gap (2ft up) but can't clear the four feet and whatnot. In always looked down on myself as a skater when i was coming up because I wasn't a total beast like some of the dudes I skated with, but now that I'm looking at the shit I had to skate and recalling what I landed, its like "damn, you weren't bad at all!" Its cool having this fresh outlook on it. Its making me realize that now that I'm healthy, fit, and not getting messed up that I will only keep skating better and having more fun!!!