skate journal: marathon night at research ledge with dave (june 22, 2015 day 168)

After driving down from BV and some eating and resting I headed to research ledge on a beautiful evening. The first thing I did was walk up the hill and just do fakie ollies down it. So fun. Then a couple runs with different 180s. Then noseslides, crooks and horrible back 50 on the ledge. Started with some basic lines like front shove, ollie up the curb, crooks. Then the other way front 180 or switch front 180 the manhole and front board popout or switch noseslide on the ledge. Tried crooks bigspin out for awhile. Never got too close. On the way back I would try tricks like switch heel, varial heel, fakie tre. I eventually went up the hill and tried some long runs starting at the little hip thing. Got a few flippers over it, kickflip, b/s flip, varial flip, halfcab flip and fakie bigflip. No long lines though. I would try treflips on the sidewalk when I went back to the starting point and landed quite a few. Dave showed up. Then we just skated the hill for awhile and it was awesome. We didn’t have many long runs, but we did put down a lot of tricks. First and foremost Dave landed his first couple fakie flips in forever, or maybe ever. So awesome. He did a lot of nollie shoves, shoves, 180s in all directions, 360s in most directions, lots of kickflips, no comply shove, etc. I got a line of fakie flip, halfcab flip, 360 flip. Hyped. Other tricks were heelflip, fakie bigflip. Got close to varial heel on the way up and posed more switch flips. Then I kickflipped all the way down the hill. I think I did 10 in a row with only one little speed check. It was a blast! But man it really wore me out.

switch

Then we went to the back area. I was too tired to ollie, but we did a bunch of cali grinds. I just did back 50 and back 5-0. Dave did front 50, front 5-0, front 5-0 to fakie, switch back 50 and a front 5-0 to front tail to fakie where he rode off the bottom stair. So sick. Then we went back to the ledge. I thought we would be leaving. But nope, it’s Dave so we kept on skating. He did this front board transfer up onto the ledge to fakie then turned it into front lip to front tail. Rad. So I spent the next hour trying to do a regular footed version of that which I finally did. Boardslide transfer up to fakie, turn it to switch front board then pop out to fakie. Pretty fun. I then did boardslide transfer up to fakie and a switch front 180 off the ledge. Dave did an amazing front crooks! Seriously, perfect! He did some regular crooks too. I ended with a good feeling crooks. Really fun night.

(setup 8.25 null venture wide lights bones med bushings 51mm stfs quincy 254s)