skate journal: fun at westminster park with dave! (oct 28, 2016 day 302)
Finally, some time to go skate! Dave picked me up and we went to Westminster park. Totally random huh? We had the park all to ourselves and it ruled. I like parks with some flat ground. I felt pretty rusty at first. Maybe Dave too. After awhile I almost got a line of halfcab flip on flat, boardslide the flat bar, kickflip, backside flip on the bank. My basic flippers were popping better then normal. I couldn’t get nollie tres though. Dave and I did doubles across the whole flat bar. My board was quite cracked so each time was a little scary for me. We both struggled with front 50s over the little ledge of death. Aka the same size ledge as above, but over the deep hole you can see behind us. Dave was first. He has more setup, so I’ll use the crappy runway from my side as an excuse. I got a couple very slow ones over it. My confidence started to go away after awhile. I ollied the flat gap in two tries which made me happy though. Dave would also get it. Actually, Dave was doing some crazy lines. Ollie the gap, turn around and 50 it, turn around and boardslide it. Something like that. He was shredding! Dave had some moves over the hip. Switch back 180 and backside bigspin. I still need to load them off of Hosercam. He had some nice kickflips up the euro too. I came really close to backside flip. Then we just started skating the ledge. Dave was trying Bennet grinds and getting close. I started rattling off tricks and ended up having some luck. I got crooks shove in a few tries. Front 50 front shove quick. Then even front 50 kickflip came right away. I was super hyped. I tried some other tricks without as much luck. Dave got 50s both ways with nollie shoves out. I tried to film the front 50 kickflip out again with a better angle, but never got another one. I really struggled with front 50s at that point. Doh. Glad to have a decent day, it’s been awhile.
(setup 8.125 null message deck, venture 5.2 low custom hollow trucks with 3 washers inside each axle, 1/16″ riser, stock thunder bushings, 52mm spitfire f4 classic 101a wheels, bronson bearings, new balance numeric pj stratford 533 navy shoes 12)