Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Curb Your Enthusiasm II

I can't remember if I've used that title before, so I'm making it number II, just in case. I super didn't feel like skating but IS, sanchongc, and lilg were gonna hit up the 圓山 amphitheater, so I dragged my ass up there with the nose of my deck completely delammed so that it looks like a prehistoric salamander on wheels. Fuck it, it's still ridable. The weather is absolutely perfect these days. No pollution, low temps but not cold, steady breeze. The session was well underway by the time I rolled up. The spot has a low curb around the base, in about a 300 degree range of the circle. You can surf down from the top and hit it without pushing (this is the best way, and you can do it from both directions) or you can push uphill and hit it, which gentlemen like myself don't do. But I got tired of climbing stairs and just copied what everyone else was already doing. I'm tooting my own horn, but I got a ** *****, which I've been trying at that spot for half a decade, and I don't know why, but somehow I could just do it tonight. The curb fairie must have visited me last night. sanchongc got the first ******* of his life, which was cause for celebration, and then he and lilg went home. IS and I proceeded to bomb the hill back home, hit the bumpy rails but landed nothing (IS rounded the 90 dgree corner but couldn't pop out of it, it was fucking sick) and although I shouldn't have, because my budget for the month is fucked since I bought a ton of camping equipment, we stooped up at the green two stair curb  with some beers. We were finished skating, but we talked about skating too much and then found ourselves skating again. I went through my normal tricks for the spot, and he brought a new one to the table: *** ***** *****. I was impressed. It's not a trick you see in these parts very often, and he performs it with authority. He didn't roll away, but it's in the fucking mail. We beered up and went to the Schelling Point (it's not an actual Schelling Point, it's just the mutually closest place for both of us to have Go Ji Bwei before we went home. We chatted about skate parts and british skate videos and women and so on, until he decided to be responsible and go home. Since Lunar New Year is coming, I don't have to do shit, until the afternoon. This could end up being either a very good, or a very sad holiday for me. Maybe both.

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