skate journal: steelyards with dave and rob (may 24, 2015 day 140)
After an early dinner with family I headed to Steelyards to meet Rob and Dave. My wrist was in a brace and I had drank a cider with dinner. Those things are strong and I was feeling ultra lazy. I got there first and had barely ollied before those guys showed. I was bummed on the one car in the parking lot parking right by the manny pad making it hard to hit it the long way. On top of that people would be going in and out of the car the whole session to get stuff and it was just awkward. Rob was MVP with some really long lines cruising fast manuals, nose manuals, ollies out of the curb cut, nollies up the curb, nose manual 180s, no comply shoves, shoves, kickflips, just cruising man. Dave had the slam of the night on a fakie shove fakie nose manual attempt. He also had 180 nose manual, nose manuals, switch back 180 out of the curb cut, kickflips and much more I’m forgetting. I was really lazy. I blame my wrist, the cider and Liz. I had a few manuals, nose manuals. Had a line with manual, ollie up then b/s flip off. Also a varial flip off. A few other flippers. In the end all three of us tried nose manual front 180s on the spot in the photo of me above. Rob did one pretty quick. Dave and I just went in circles trying over and over. We kept putting our back wheels down before the 180. It was so annoying. On the way back I did a few treflips. But yeah, we tried over and over while it sprinkled on us and could not get it. We both got close, bug no cigar.
(setup 8.25 null venture light wides bones med bushings 51mm stfs nb+ pj stratfords)