So. Today's Ikea session got off to a frustrating start. Was forced onto the sidewalk whilst skating down the hill and did a pendulum and ended up shredding a chunk out of my wheel. Luckily it wasn't too big, but still frustrating. When I arrived at the spot Antonio wasn't there yet. I changed my wheels around so as not to disturb the missing chunk. I then began to practice my stand-up (heel-side) checks. Got them going nicely now.
Then began pushing my longer standies. Definitely got them solidly in the 30 foot range (9 meters) so pretty chuffed on that too. Once Antonio arrived the rain clouds were looking ominous, but I decided that I would practice toe-side 180s for the first time anyway. Landed them a couple of times, but obviously I'm still going switch once I land them and I had yet to brave the switch standies. I decided to go a little faster with the toe-side and ended up doing some crazy break-dancing on the tar, rolling over my neck (which is now stiff, much to Tam's disgust). It was at this point I figured I'd try switch standies after landing my stand-up 180s.
Basically the point of this post is to chronicle the fact that I officially landed a switch stand-up slide. Was lank weird, but I did. Pretty stoked. It then rained and cancelled the rest of the session. The end.
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| The bar we stopped off at cos we were getting soaked. |
