A Day in the Life of a Sucky Skater

Hi guys, Kit here. I saw Imgur was doing A Day in the Life as a category, so I decided why not. A Day in the Life of a Sucky Skater. I didn't know what to put as the beginning of this, so I just took a picture after I took all of my gear off.

This, is 5:00 in the morning Kit. Full bedhead and everything. Jump training. This is just one part, the high jump, but I do a lot more like calf raises, situps, etc.

Stationary manual practice this morning. I'm trying to get better at controlling it here for longer and longer times, and maybe some skills will translate to pavement

Rolling ollie this morning. It rained last night, so most of the ground is pretty wet.

I tried doing manuals at a faster speed to see if that helped, but they honestly kinda remained the same. I found out that when I bend my knees too much, the board gets more front-heavy. I guess that's just a me thing.

Kickturns are my latest point of frustration. Last night I went on freestyle trick tips for some help, and it recommended a shorter wheelbase for this. I didn't know what a wheelbase was, so I looked it up and measured it out. My wheelbase is 14.75 inches. I found another chart for wheelbase that puts it together with height, and my recommended wheelbase is 13.75. No wonder I feel so awkward trying to do this 180. We're gonna have to put up with it though since I'm probably not getting a new deck until December.

I dunno man. We just could not Walk the Dog today. Maybe because the grip tape was wet?

This, is what keeps me alive. My usual sleep schedule is about 10 or 11 o clock to five in the morning, so I turn to the sacred coffee with Pumpkin Spice coffee creamer. Every day of the year is a Pumpkin spice day of the year. Does anyone else get sleepy after drinking coffee?

This is my best friend NoNo in my Calculus class. Currently, limits are making no sense to her. We bicker a lot, and she fusses at me for not putting icepacks on my bruises and eating too much Waffle House. She sings the soundtrack to Pitch Perfect while on the phone at 11:00 at night. She really really likes plants. I mean really likes plants. She somehow tolerates me, and we are best friends.

Me and NoNo also have English together. Somehow, SpongeBob Squarepants is related to Beowulf. We had to learn about archetypes and the format of the hero's journey. I said her archetype would be the hero, and she said mine would be the outsider. We also have epic pencil swordfights.

My third period class is library assistant, so I mostly read and help shelve books. Right now, I have Night Shift by Stephen King (I like horror and I miss spooky season) and The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (the movie made no sense, so here's the book). I also do some schoolwork in here.

We have assigned sections to keep up with. I was out the day these were assigned so I ended up with some of the nonfiction and the entire comic book section. This is my friend Emily posing with a stack of all of the manga books I have to shelve away since apparently a lot of people here like reading manga. Emily also draws really really good. Like super good. She even painted on my denim jacket to look like the background of Metallica's Ride the Lightning. Super good artist. She also likes bones. Like skeletons. In the cool way though.

When I get home, I try to carpetboard some. Here is my carpet shove-it. One thing I'm gonna try is putting my scoop foot not on the tail, but in the pocket.

Trying the Strawberry Milkshake here. I'm still having issues picking up the board. I can't exactly tell why. I just know that it feels a bit cumbersome and heavy to flip.

My yo-yo hops are still bad. I'm trying to hold onto them more, but I think I have to go less forward but more up in my jump.

Last Stationary manual practice in the evening. Oh, if you guys could see what on God's green earth my arms are doing up there.

My nightly ritual: hot cocoa. Almost every single night a while back I would make it. Hot cocoa fixes all wounds. My current wounds are that my ankles hurt turning my feet in during kickturns. Hot cocoa will fix it.