skate journal: short boulder park morning session with some rain (oct 30, 2015 day 291)
One of those rare morning when I work late that I decide to leave early and stop by Boulder park. It was lightly sprinkling as I pulled in. There were two other people there that left shortly after I got there. Hopefully it was the rain that got to them and not me. I did a few axle stalls around the park, almost got a grind in the round deep end and then it started to get sketchy to skate. So I just tried this line over an over of ollie into the far NW bank, kickflilp out of the bump, front 50 down the hubba, front 50 up the hubba. Never quite got it, but did get halfway up the hubba. Good enough for me.
After work I stopped by the research center. I had energy and wanted to skate. It was cool out. I warmed up by riding down the Max stairs a few times then hit the ledge. Had some fun warm up runs with a basic trick on the ledge then ollies up the curbs and the little gap. Took awhile to get crooks. Got back 50 first try. Had an ok halfcab noseslide. Took forever to get a front 50 and when I did I headed around the building to find a good spot for flatground. I told myself I needed to do 15 flip tricks. That’s pretty much all I have so it would be tough. It started out good though. Kickflip, fakie flip, heelflip, halfcab flip, fakie bigfilp, varial flip, fakie varial flip, 360 flip, nollie varial flip, nollie 360 flip, f/s halfcab flip, f/s flip, b/s flip. And then I couldn’t do a trick to save my life. My feet were hurting like crazy and I knew I would never skate the Suciu’s again. I was getting close on f/s halfcab heel, but I would wuss out a lot because of how bad my feet hurt. I ended up getting horrible b/s and f/s halfcab heels to make 15. Fun.
(setup 8.25 null venture vlight lows venom bushings no bottom washer 1/16 riser 4 washers on the inside of each axle 50mm spitfire f4 101a adidas suciu adv)