I was attempting to ollie on my short board today. I've never tried to ollie before. I'm more into coasting in the bike lane on East Captiol on my long board.
But my skateboarding 'Yoda' is in town, so I decided to hit him up for a lesson. So I was "going really fast" (because everything works better when you go fast, and as I was instructed to do by Sk8Bord Yoda) with my foot on the backish of skateboard getting ready to ollie and as one is apt to do if one is working hard enough on a skateboard, ate some pavement...HARD.
I was going, again, "really fast" and probably looked down - I don't remember, actually, all I remember is thinking 'this is going to hurt'.
And it did.
I tore my jeans and have a nice, nope - two nice scrapes on my left knee. As I sit here and type, goo (thanks to my antiseptic of choice, Bag Balm) is seeping down my leg - yeah baby. Also, I have a small scrape on my right hand and the pads of my hands are a wee bit raw...
I have learned two things thanks to my scrapes: one, if you don't bleed a little, you probably aren't trying hard enough and two, I really miss snow.
1 comment:
Its easier to learn to ollie standing still, you have to get the lfow of the motion down first
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