Superhuman Night

Very rarely, I have a day when I feel like I can do anything I want with a skateboard. At best, it's about once a year. I've never understood the cause of this phenomenon. There are no common factors that can account for it. It helps when the weather is good, and when the deck isn't too new, and when the shoes are as old as possible, but I really can't account for why I have these jumps forward sometimes.
Usually, like tonight, I just start warming up and land everything. I quickly work through every flatground trick I know. I normally try and run through each flatground trick I can reliably, land, but if it takes more than ten tries, I just give up and move on to the next one. When these special sessions happen, I never need ten tries. Sometimes, I get a completely new trick without having to really practice it. That didn't happen on the flatground this time, but it did with a grind.
I was at the three stair park. The weather was cold and clear. I was waiting on RMJ to show up, and since I had already torn through my list of flatground, I started in on every curb trick I could think of. As RMJ arrived, I was in the middle of the list. I had already done a few *********s, but I just leanred them, and they feel glorious, so I did a few more. I ended up landing something that I had only imagined doing a few minutes earlier. It was a ***** ** *** ***. I started tweaking it, so that it's a bit like a ***** ** ******. I probably landed it more times than I missed.
RMJ had brought a sort of turkish pizza, and gave me the last slice. It was delicious.

As the traffic thinned out, we headed north up 松江, slappy and sliding on the marble as we went, loudly clacking over loose tiles and between pedestrians. RMJ is an expert curb dancer, but truly comes into his own on a cruise up or down Taipei. We were both getting work done tonight as we went north, and found our way to 行天宮. There's nothing like making everything you try for a couple of km. 

At the temple, the trend continued. The sky cleared out of the little white puffy clouds that had been lit up by the street lights, and a handful of stars took their place. I got my new trick on the long stairs there, and longer, better versions of tricks I could already do on the ledge. 

The night being what it was, I went for a ***. This ledge is taller than anything I've tried to *** before. I never got it, but I got into it, which was more than I expected. It was more than just a good night. I hope I get another one in 2018.