A really good practice session this evening.
We welcome a new guy, Tony, to the Skateful Dead – always good to have a new skater. He’s a skateboarder so should take to quads like a duck to water :-)
Roller Blind was back on track with us. He’s been away too long. He doesn’t seem to have lost any of his skills. Still solid. He steered me clean off the track a few times. We also partnered in the chest blocking drill. That went really well, we were quite evenly matched I think. Then I switched to Si-Clops. He’s strong too and has a really neat twist-and-hit move just as you get towards the edge of the track. It kept catching me out – I thought I had a little more room, but no…
Matt, one of our other new skaters is doing well. Just need to keep his balance, but he takes the hits well. He was not easy to keep control of when I was paired with him. Also managed to knock me off balance a few times. Well done.
Bilb was back on skates following recovery time for a knee injury. Glad for him – it’s depressing going to practice and not skating in my experience.
It was a really hard session. With attention divided between different groups each drill ran for some time. The chest blocking drill was really hard work – my shoulders ache now so tomorrow could be interesting.
Good stuff! :-)