skate journal: not so great on the ledges then a couple of highlights in a parking garage (april 26, 2016 day 117)
Went to these ledges on a cool night with sprinkles threatening to move the session indoors. I was incredibly stiff when I started. As I tried some silly pivots to fakie on the banked curb this old lady’s dog was barking at me something fierce. It was this little brown poodle looking dog. The lady was cool, she said she hoped I wasn’t scared of dogs. Naturally I said I wasn’t, but maybe this dog. She laughed. Normally people like that hate skating, but she was cool and wished me a good night. I got some noseslides going, ride on front 50s on the escalator part, a kickflip or two. It became a struggle to do anything else though. Got a few crooks. Most just bonked off right away, but I had a few that grinded for awhile. Kind of got a line with crooks over one gap and then noseslide 270 out over the next, but the 270 was in no way legit. Not very close to front crooks, front tail, front smith or even back 50 really. After awhile I left. It wasn’t raining, but it was cold and I kind of just wanted to skate flatground.
So I went to the Valmont garage. I set my board down, took one push and went to wallie a parking block, but hit a stop rock and slammed. I was close to a board focus. This time of year it’s hard to be excited about parking garages. Shortly after a truck pulled in and this guy stopped when he saw me. I was like great, a kickout. Instead he told me to have fun and enjoy the warmth. Whoa, cool! I stubbornly kept skating and would eventually have a couple highlights. One was a line of switch ollie a parking block, fakie flip on flat, halfcab flip on flat, kick back tail the tiny curb (it felt really good though). Another line was pop shove on flat, 360 flip on flat, kickflip front 50 (sloppy as it gets, but it’s been awhile). Other then that I didn’t get much of what I tried. No nolllie flips, proper cabs, nollie cabs, switch heels, or another kick back tail. Those lines did cheer me up though.
(setup 8.25 null awkward vector, venture v-hollow light 5.2 hi with 3 washers on the inside of the axles, venom 88a bushings, bones stf 51mm v2, nbnumeric pj stratford 533 white/gum)