skate journal: campus with dave and lots of filming (oct 24, 2015 day 285)
Met Dave at the normal campus meet up spot. Basically a slight downhill median. We got there at the same time. Warm ups for both of us were various nose stall 270s. We would get a bit more courageous with each warming minute (it was cold when we started!). I slammed trying to ollie onto the median, but it woke me up. It was the first time this season slapping that cold of ground. Ouch. We both did some manuals. I did a dumb switch board stall turned around to manual. I think Dave got it too. I did a line of ollie onto the median, kickflip on it, back 180 off. Dave got a clean back 180 nose manual. I managed a front 180 nose manual 180 out which felt really cool.
Then we moved into campus for the new spot Dave found. Quick up a curb to another curb. It’s fun. I struggled with back 50s for a bit. Dave started doing front crooks and did a perfect one to fakie before the camera was on. I filmed him for quite awhile and it didn’t happen again. But he did get on to forward that was tight and one with a 270 out. Ha. After that I skated for awhile and Dave chilled. Then Dave filmed me try a chinese nollie followed by a slappy crooks to fakie. Got it real quick so I tried to add a trick to the beginning and somehow did the line with a no comply 360 right away. I was hyped!
Then we went to this new spot. Dave did gap to 50 easy. It’s harder then the photo looks. We skated for awhile. It’s a cool alley that had a manhole we were messing around with tricks over. Spoiler alert. Dave did a steezy pop shove followed by a bump to 50 and an over 40 nollie big. So good. I tried to do back 180 the manhole then fakie flip, but I struggled with the fakie flip. Instead I went with kickflip then no comply 180 to set me up for a switch front nose. I would eventually get it in on film thanks to Dave being such a wonderful guy. Then Dave went and shut down the ledge with a front tail. Okay, maybe he didn’t ‘shut’ it down, but the spot probably will be shut down soon when they finish construction. That was it. Fun day. We skated hard.
(setup: 8″ null venture lows 50mm ojs emerica westgates grey)