skate journal: inspired flatground then some campus fun with jake (july 7, 2016 day 189)

Posted in Favorite, Skate Journal on July 8th, 2016 by corpo

Tall guy selfie flip.

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Feeling extra inspired after chatting with my homie PJ (not quite as big of an exaggeration as it sounds) I went to the dog park to skate flatground. I was pushing a little faster then normal to warm up. Did some ollies over a little crack gap, got a few kickflips going then started rattling off my small list of basic flippers. Most of them came pretty quickly, including treflip which has been such a pain lately. I hucked like crazy. I got close to a lot of rare or new flippers like nollie f/s flip, nollie flip, switch flip, nollie heel, hardflip. The highlight was trying cab flips and getting one! It wasn’t pretty, and I was so excited when I started rolling away that I bailed, but it still stoked me out so much. Jack came and we played a game of SKATE. He wasn’t warmed up at all, I had skated flat for almost two hours. I smoked him. Ha, even had a treflip first try.

jake bluntslide

Then we went to campus. First spot was the tall ledges with the little gap in the middle. We both got “gap” to manuals with a couple tilts in them. Then we skated the sloped ledge. Another dude joined us for awhile. It was cool. Jake did a really good bluntslide and a front tail. I kind of got a slappy crooks, a terrible front tail and almost a front crook jib to fakie.

@iamnotacreepyjake doing something creepy at a creepy spot. 👌

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Then we went to the bank to curb area. Jake did front 180 fakie pivot to forward along with this creepiness above. Ha. I did a slow kick back 50 which was new ground for me having to be quick after the curb ollie. I also came remotely close to some switch flips at the starting gate.

(setup 8.12 Habitat Suciu deck, venture low lights, standard thunder bushings, 1/16″ riser, 3 washers inside each axle, 51mm STF V1, Es Sal black/gum)