Skate Log: #1, Back on Board!

After viewing the Vans ProTec pool party again, and seeing former friends still getting after it, I realized I needed to get back out there. Opportunity knocked in the form of an afternoon off after a training class got out early. I had been thinking about the Costa Mesa skatepark for a year or so after spotting it while driving by, so I decided it was now or never. I hadn't ridden in at least 3 years, maybe 4, but after a summer of biking to work I felt like I was in good enough shape to give it a shot.

The temperature was 90+, and the park was mostly deserted, as the police were ticketing people without pads as I arrived. I rode for about an hour, until the heat was just too much. The verdict: no slams, and I just stuck to the small kidney bowl, as the larger combi-bowl just looked a little too deep today. Overall, not bad for my first session, and one of the locals even asked me for some tips on doing frontside grinds.

Tricks: Axle-stall, b-side 50-50, f-side grind, rock-2-fakie, fakie d.

Update: knees feel good next day!