I’ve forgotten how much fun it is skating in a big group. Big enough so you can have a sit down and just watch some skating, but small enough not to stand in line to skate a spot.
We were a crew of six skaters on Saturday; Cobus, Fuzzy, Konrad, Karabo, Guillaume and I. As usual we started out with a warm up session at the plane’arium. Speaking of, these days there is a definite line of jurisdiction between the part of the planetarium that the museum guards and the part that the CCID patrols. You can literally walk across a line and will become completely invisible to the respective guard patrolling the other part of the park. Crazy.
After a good warm up session at the plane’arium we headed to the CPUT to run some laps with security. We started by skating a five set which almost everyone ollied and Fuzzy landing a perfect 180 down. I attempted flipping it, but after committing to it, I ended busting by elbow to the point where I wanted to vomit. But I don’t skate for Baker, so I don’t get paid to be super doper hardcore, so I kept my Arnolds double breakfast inside me.
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| Rousseau Loubser - Kick Flip to Epic Fail |
After security gave us all psychological cavity searched, we headed off to a ramped loading dock at the foot of a hill. Cobus landed a clean 180 of it before we were told to “move along” again.
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| Cobus Engelbrecht - 180 |
After all this trekking we all felt like nomads and decided to leave the CPUT grounds. The rest of the crew skated the parking lot across from the technicon while I sat and licked my wounds. Fuzzy landed a kerb Ollie to five stair pop with his lighting fast footwork while I snapped some photos. After looking at the photos I took, I’m contemplating starting a blog called “lessthanaveragefilmersblog”, sorry Fuzzy.
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| Fuzzy - Ollie |
This was the end of the day and we all went our separate ways. Special thanks to Guillaume and Konrad for coming out.
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