skate journal: rock creek / valmont / campus saturday fun day (april 25, 2015 day 112)
I woke up super early, did some stuff and felt like going skating. I went to Rock Creek and had a mostly fun solo session. The slam that made it “mostly” was a fakie hurricane attempt gone bad where I flipped backwards into the ramp. Somehow I didn’t hit my head too hard and I kept skating. I would do a couple runs on the ramp then a couple flatground tricks. I was 100% on front smiths and 0% on back smiths. Front d’s felt good, front rocks, little frontside ollies. On flat I ended up getting through most of my tricks and was on nollie tres when three cars of helmet kids and a scooter or two showed up. Landed it then I was out.
Talked to Bernie and we met at Valmont. I was just kind of dorking around trying slow front smiths and doing them without grinding. Riley showed next and quickly did the basics. The back 5-0 and crooks up were hot. Rob was next and was having early morning issues. Bernie and Scotty were next and we all played a game of SKATE. They put Rob and I last. Bastards. Once it got to Riley the letters piled up quick and Rob and I both went out on fakie heel. Scotty was out next. We skated the ledge more. Rob had woken up and got crooks and halfcab noseslide to fakie. Scotty did nollie noseslide on a tallish part. Unreal. Bernie was feeling out some rad ones too. I was sucking.
Off to campus it was. First spot was the double set rail and Riley went for broke on it. So gnarly. He walked away with a sore knee and no trick, but it’ll go down next time. Carleigh and Dave showed up. After the rail session I asked for 10 tries on the stupid rock again. Never got it, but was close as usual. Dave and Rob added some cool tricks. At the end Bernie joined in on some manual fun and fakie manual’d the sidewalk into the hill. I did front tail to fakie. Dave bonked the rock. Riley did blunt on the rock.
Then we went over to this ledge. My legs were pretty much done at this point, the only thing I managed was some noseslides. I was hating my setup. Razor tail’d board and soft wheels. Riley, Bernie and Scotty killed it. Scotty nollie hardflipped up the ledge at one point. Crazy! Rob had a really tall halfcab noseslide and boardslide pop outs. Dave was off in the distance doing his gap to nose manual which he finally got. The new Null board probably deserves the credit. After awhile some preppy yacht club dork parked right in front of the ledge on purpose. Dork. Carleigh went for 180 nosegrind right by his truck. After that we hit the slappy ledge nearby. Riley did perfect slappy back 50s and a front 5-0. Dave did a few slappy crooks and his patented front 5-0. I got a weak slappy crook. Carleigh and Rob battled 50s. Bernie giggled. Scotty won the pull up contest.
This crew of people is awesome. So stoked to know them all.
(setup 8.38 null venture wides bones med bushings spitfire f4 52mm 99 NB+ stratford 479)