skate journal: golden with carleigh, rob, fuzz and a little nolan (june 3, 2017)
Went out in front of my house to try and warm up and knew it was going to be a tough day for me. I had put smaller trucks and bigger wheels on. They felt fine. My legs didn’t. I got to kickflip. Then Carleigh showed up and we rolled to Fuzz’s, stretched then rolled to Golden with Rob. We hit some potential spots on the way. One full pipe had water in it, one had human crap in it. Then we rolled into Golden and looked at a spot, then ended up on campus. First spot was a plaza that I would normally love. Great flat ground and a bunch of ledges. But my legs weren’t working so flatground didn’t really work. Carleigh warmed up doing a bunch of tricks in a smooth area. I tried to do Fuzz or Rob’s lines. Everyone was weirded out by the crack in front of the ledge. Well, not kids that showed up later. Fuzz did two really sick boardslides to fakie 50. Unreal. I got my camera and we tried to film it, but he ended up hurting his back like an old person rather than landing it. Ha. Carleigh picked up the slack and got a boardslide to lipslide to grass flop. It was sick. We moved on. Ended up at a sick spot with a couple of benches, 4 stair, 2 stair, 6 stair. Carleigh reigned champ and ollied the 4 then 6. Rob did a sick line, but it doesn’t count since he wouldn’t let me film it. Or maybe it just deserves parenthesis. (front board, bean plant the 4). Then we hit a steep bank for awhile. Rob and Carleigh did wallrides. I just hiked the hill and did powerslides. It ruled. Nolan showed up and grinded the top of the darn steep bank. Then we went to Holidaily! It was a dream come true, have a couple “beers” with my friends.
(setup 8.25″ null spanbauer deck, venture 5.2 high v-hollows, venom 88a bushings, bones sft v3 52mm wheels, 3 washers on the inside of each axle, bronson raw bearings, nbnumeric quincy 254 12 gum/cream, fp gamechangers then remind cush insoles)