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Dropping In for a Session
Last night was a pivotal session at the skatepark (no pun intended). After six or seven sessions of tiptoeing around and just pumping the vert ramp, I finally dropped in.
Right after I started skating the vert ramp for real, I could suddenly do huge carves in the deep end of the pool, coming out going a hundred miles an hour, hitting fast frontside carves around the far corner of the shallow end, and coming back around for another big carve. What happened? I just got over that fear of being momentarily weightless, of feeling out of control for just a second. I stopped psyching myself out—a lesson I could learn in other parts of my life.
Now I’ve just got to pull a fakie rock on vert…
08/29/02 08:52AM Four-Wheeled Toy
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