skate journal: brief wilville then research with rob (june 23, 2017)

Worked from home on a nice Friday after a rainy morning. Rob and I went to meet at Wilville around 3:30. I had a fun push there. I did one warm up nose stall on the skate stopped ledge and immediately a security guard came out and gave the boot. Doh. I went out front and Rob was there and we agreed to try Dog Park. Rob got there first and told me it was all wet. Argh. So then we decided on research which was dry and bust free. However there were quite a few students and cars making it not as chill as normal. I had watched a bunch of CK1 parts earlier in the day and it got me hyped to try some lines. It kind of helped with some warm up lines that were fun. Rob got halfcab noseslide, halfcab noseslide to fakie, crooks, boardslide and maybe halfcab boardslide too. I just had noseslides and a crooks or two. I couldn’t get halfcab noseslide, front 50 or back 50. We did some downhill lines for awhile. I was skating so incredibly slow. Got halfcab flip, the slowest fakie bigflip in history, couldn’t kickflip up the curb. Rob was trying a line of back 180 up the curb, body varial, front shove, front board pop out. He had one body varial that was so sketchy and amazing that he survived without a fall. I was trying some super slow frontside halfcab flips when Rob sat and I sat too that was the skating for the day. I wish skateboarding wasn’t so hard sometimes.

(setup 8.38″ null machine deck, venture 5.8 wides, venom 90a bushings, bones stf 52mm v5 wheels, 3 washers on the outside of each axle, nbnumeric pj 533s black/gum 12 with thin lakai insoles)