October 18, 2019
The second time I ever when tableskating I learned many more valuable lessons. I couldn't wait to go tableskating after my first time doing it and knew I needed to recuperate quickly and is why I drank a whole gallon of milk in less than a day and ate like 50 eggs along with cold baths to bring my legs back to sprinting conditions.
I woke up at like 6am the day of my second round of tableskating. It must have taken me 40 minutes to setup four tables this time. I put three end-to-end like the last time and then one all by it self about 3 feet away from the end of the third table.
I was able to tableskate for like 2 minutes before it started raining and then had to rush to put all four tables in my garage before they got soaked. I think it took me like a minute and 30 seconds to shelter them and was lucky they didn't get wet for the most part.
At this time I was about 30 years old and still pretty strong and agile and could handle each 50 pound table with a relatively small amount of effort. After 30 minutes it stopped raining and now I was forced to spend another 35 - 40 minutes setting up those 50 pound tables all over again. What a workout when you have no hand-truck!
Ok so after I was finally able to commence my second actual tableskating session and when I say actual I mean actually able to try and do out of this world tricks which was the whole reason behind adding a skateboard to the equation in the first place, I just could not land anything at all and soon feared running out of energy before becoming able to bust out something super ligit.
I started pacing myself by only sprinting on the upturns and walking on the downturns. Since what I was mainly trying to accomplish was something fakie, I made those the upturns and since I only had one side to tableskate on I made regular stance tricks the downturns.
Failure after maybe twenty sprints or so, I found myself practicing the trick I was trying to do while going 0 mph along one of my tables to learn and perhaps understand better what I may have been doing wrong all along. I had no problems doing them in this manner, but as soon as I tried them while tableskating, it became nearly impossible.
Then suddenly out of pure chance I did it and even was able to catch it on camera! Miraculous. Like shooting a hole-in-one! I couldn't believe it. I still can't believe it in part because of the tableskater I was using. You see, earlier while failing as usual, I managed to destroy my best tableskater to date after running it over with a 70mm 84-A "These" wheel bolted to my Venture truck that was attatched to my tableskating skateboard which stripped its griptape from its deck and seperated one of its wheels from its permanent axle rendering it completely useless which meant I had to fallback to the tableskater I used on my first day of tableskating.