skate journal: York park with Matt, Damon and Eric! (july 20, 2016 day 202)
After almost 7 hours of driving I met up with the dudes in the early afternoon heat to shred it up. It was 95 degrees with 95 percent humidity. Luckily Eric had brought a cooler full of ice and gallon jugs of water for each of us. It ruled. I pumped around a bit then stretched as I was so stiff from the drive. Everyone else was ripping immediately. Eric skates that park like he lives there. Because he does. Ha. We hit the ramp for a bit, the curb for a bit then kind of spread out to everything. Joe and Damon rattled off tricks on the mini bank to ledge while I just did front 50 and front 5-0. Joe has front smiths so good. I tried some stuff, but mostly tried mutes over the wedge over and over and over. Got so close, would think I did it, but there really wasn’t match of a grab. I would get a couple, but they are brief, quick single finger grabs. Luckily skateboarding doesn’t have an officiating crew like weight lifting making sure that grabs meet regulation. I got one in a run with a frontside flip and a high five to Joe. Pretty awesome. We skated for four hours in the heat. I don’t know how since I really didn’t land much of anything, but it was fun. Those guys got a bro line and we saved my footage for the OLDFART game.
(setup 8.1 Krooked Manderson deck, venture low lights, standard thunder bushings, 1/16″ riser, 3 washers inside each axle, 51mm STF V1, eS Swift black/white)