skate journal: street league park with jake, bernie, nolan, riley, garrett, teagan (jan 18, 2015 day 18 (the day i give up on 300))

Posted in Skate Journal on January 19th, 2015 by corpo

Jake and I went to Erie park on a very nice morning to meet Bernie, Nolan, Riley and crew. We started with a game of SKATE up on the top area. It started slow, but ended up being decent. I got a couple letters on tricks I shouldn’t have. But landed treflip, heelflip and f/s flip. Jake got 4 tries on the end fakie tre and landed a good one. I landed on my two tries, but didn’t ride away. Oh well. Everyone else was killing it. I tried some front 50s on ledges and could not do it. At all. It was depressing and when I realized chasing a dream of 300 days is just stupid. My body can’t handle it anymore. I tried a line of crooks a ledge, b/s flip on a bank then front 50 the bump to ledge. Never got it. Jake was ripping. Ollied the bump to gap in lines. Got me to commit to a 3 stair gap I haven’t done before, but I didn’t roll away. Riley was killing the handrail. And even kickflipped the big rail first try. Wowsers. Nolan can shred anything and did a bunch of flat bar tricks. Garrett is getting better everytime he skates. Teagan kills flippers. Bernie was hungover. At the end Jake and I raced to kickflip back 50s on the little ledge which I got first. But it was a bad one. I’m tired and sore. Wah.

(setup 8″ venture lows bones med bushing spitfire four 50mm wheels)