skate journal: campus fun with dave and matt (nov 24, 2015 day 314)
Met Dave and Matt under the Engineering building where we would end up staying quite some time. We started by doing some rock climbing and stationary nollies. Unless you are Matt and that also included some nollie heels. Then we started doing different lines and stuff down/up the handicap banks or stairs. Matt easily ollied up the two sets of 3. Dave did too, I was impressed. Matt missed several treflips at first which I was pretty blown away by. He would end up getting a bunch of perfect ones though. Had a line of ollie up the first 3, then noseslide to fakie up the second. Then the banger above. Dave went for the ollie/noseslide combo too, didn’t get it, but made up for it by getting close to back 180 up the 3 stair. I had some kickflips over cracks, back 50s down the ledge, halfcab flip into the bank (couldn’t fakie bigflip again) and took the longest to get an ollie up the lower 3 stair. On top of that I had to put a hand or two down. Oh well. Then we hit a nearby ledge for a bit. Matt back tail’d it. Dave did boardslide to fakie avoiding death into a pillar. I did some noseslides.
Then we skated the slanted ledge area for awhile. Fun area. Matt chilled a bit, but still got some slappy back 50s, front tailslide. Dave did his patented front 5-0 slappy that is so sick. The best slappy crooks I’ve seen him do there, good slappy back 5-0s. I did a few backside slappy tricks that didn’t grind, 50, 5-0, back smith (kind of). Got a couple slappy crooks that felt rad, couldn’t slide front tail and struggled with some lines. Matt may have done a manual or two on the orange platform. Matt easily ollied the ledge and I posed some attempts over it. First time I’ve had fun skating in awhile. Maybe I should make an effort to skate with friends more often.
(setup 8.25 null venture wides bones medium bushings 50mm stf v1 washers on the outside of the axle nb# pj stratford 533 black/white)