So I was out at my little spot today skateing and I decide to try the gap between parking lots. The top edge is a very low curb and the bottom is a high curb. It drops about a foot and half and is about 2 to 3 and half feet wide. All it should take is a couple pushes and a half decent ollie to float over it...I can't let go my fear of, fear of , fear of what? That is my question. I must have some fear of dropping from heights while my moving. Its not just the dropping I guess. All the things that I could never force my self to do while skating always concerned ollieing down something. maybe its the landing and rolling away...I dont think I'm afriad of falling. Stairs, I could do small sets of stairs 4 or 5. I bet if that top curb wasn't there I could do it. After the first couple times I did handrailing boardslides i could never push my self to do them again. Another thing I could go fast and far off of lauch ramps but I could never ollie with tom much confidence off of them. Give me a bank and I could ollie the hell out of it. Again going off a ramp you have to go up and then drop below the top of the ramp but , wtih a bank you are only going back down as far as the top of the bank. At the saketpark recently i was finnally able to make my self ollie from bank to bank over the pyramid ramp. its just an odd thing. It holds me back. It held me back today...
Skate park update
I drove by the park today and got a better look. Besides the missing ramp to keep the flow going I noticed just how scary the "fun box" is going to be. Its steep and the ramps on the edges are very narrow and the middle one has steps on the other side. Eh, looks like I'll be getting better at mini-ramp riding.
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