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one too many ollies
Well, after work I met chenny on the train and we went to the skate park for some pre-basketball festivities. It was kind of cold out, but we had to hold up the tradition of skating before the late game. The park is well lit, so we only go there at night when it's not used by anyone else. I rolled into the snake run and got about half way down and then pulled out. There was 2 coke bottles and an aerosol can on the concrete, and lots of dirt.

Needless to say we were a lot less keen to skate. Also chito's recent anklebreaking fiasco, and the long break between skates for us both contributed to our hesitations to ride the snake run. We both had a few goes and then decided to practice ollying (jumping). I had a few goes and was going well when I landed one a little too in the middle and a loud crack resonated around the park. My board had snapped cleanly this time in half. It was pretty funny (see cam pic). That put a premature end to our skating so we went home and sat around for a while before going to basketball.

Basketball was ok, chenny played really well for a tired man. He ran 4kms at lunch for some reason. Our team are pretty nub offensively. No one has a jumpshot. Maybe adrian. Chenny, me and harry score about 70% of the points, and I'm not a scorer. Harry had a hamstring injury, and without the FEARSOME rednut, we were kind of average. We lost by 14 but we played ok, great defensively, not so great offensively. I think when we all play a bit together more, we'll learn to score better. The new guy phil is ok. Pretty much how I imagined his game to be.

After basketball I took some photos because it was a nice night. Here is a sample.

posted by hunt @ 12:15 AM