skate journal: brick ledges with john (feb 9, 2015 day 40)

Posted in Skate Journal on February 10th, 2015 by corpo

Good time skating with @hellagnarbrosevelt on day 40 in a row

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After dropping India off for ballet I met John at the newish ledge spot on Pearl. We warmed up by dorking around on the banked curb. I should have taken a photo. John did pivot fakie and blunt to pivot fakie on it. We both did some little grinds like feebles and stuff. it was funny. My favorite was a wallie to grind from the side. I made a comment about “I can’t believe how long we’ve skated this” and cracked my board a little on a lipslide attempt. It was fine though. Then we skated the ledges. John was quick on the front 50s. The narrowness of the ledge and slight downhill still weird me out a little. I got some decent crooks and slammed on a back 50 or two. John had a line of front 50 180 out then switch noseslide the next one. I had a couple front 5-0s that were supposed to be 50s. Ha. One of the advantages of not leveling out your ollies like you’re supposed to. I got a front 50 shove out then we played a game of SKATE. It was a long one with several attempts for tricks to be landed. I landed treflip first and he landed it too. He got me on switch front shove, but in the end I got him with high tech maneuvers like heelflip, b/s flip and fakie bigflip

(setup 8.25 venture wides bones medium bushings ricta crap wheels)