skate journal: manny pad / ledgy in the cold with dave (nov 29, 2015 day 319)
Went to meet Dave at Red Curbs, but saw that this spot was mostly dry and went for it. The sun came out a few times which was nice, but other then that it was cold in the low 20s. I got there first. I put Ledgy down the lower curb and took awhile to do a line of manual the top section then noseslide down. I finally got it right as Dave showed up. Dave didn’t seem hyped on the setup. Ha. He warmed up for awhile, I tried some other stuff. We eventually settled in on trying lines hitting the manual pad the short way then doing a ledge trick. Man I sucked it up on Ledgy. It’s so scary. You gotta get out as soon as you get in. I didn’t really land much on the manuals either. Came close to switch 180 to manual. Dave came close to front 180 nose manual.
On Ledge I got front 50 and back crooks. Yippe. Oh and a horrible back 50. Dave got a clean back 50 and a front crooks! My flat ground wasn’t going to good. My board was old, my legs were tired, it was cold. Dave gave me more pointers on the ‘poor man’s 360’ and I got a couple without hitting the tail. I’ll keep working on it. At the end we set the ledge after a curb and did a couple tricks. Dave did back 50 easy and came close to back nosegrind. I struggled with front 50 so did front 5-0 instead. Dave left and I set it up backside for me. I got into several back 50s and would stick. So I waxed it and then it was easy. Imagine that.
(setup 8.25 null venture wides bones medium bushings old stf v1 52mm nb# pj stratford 533 black/white)