skate journal: flatground with dave that went decent then saul’s (july 13, 2017)
Was super tired at work all day, but decided to skate after work regardless. I got to Dog Park first and took quite awhile to get the legs going. Dave showed when I had gotten to kickflip, no comply 180 and then fakie flip. Dave started the warm up process too. He chose to do like 20 fakie shove it’s in a row. It looked pretty funny. I started skating decent for me, actually landing a couple tricks in a row sometimes. Halfcab flip, fakie bigflip, heelflip even got a treflip (one hand down) within a few tries. I still didn’t have much confidence and skated incredibly slow, but it felt like progress. Oh yeah, they painted parted of it for some reason. It’s a littler slicker which is nice, but reflects more sun making it brighter. Dave had a lot of kickflips, shoves, fakie bigs, kind of cab big and finished off with varial flip and fakie varial flip. He also did a ton of backside bigspins. So sick. I took a long time to get a fakie varial flip, couldn’t get nollie var flip, but was close. It was hot out, I was sweating like crazy.
Then we went to Saul’s for a shortish session. I didn’t skate too well, perhaps the tiny wheels and low trucks are actually a disadvantage. I did manage my little grind the shallow corner than front rock line. Although each time it seems like my front rock gets worse. Also got a front disaster, got into front axle stall but didn’t try to land it, rolled in first try again, got a front axle on the noping qp then ride on grind/transfer into the bowl. It was fun. Saul had some good 50s, the carve grind magic as always, close to the cali grind transfer, laughed at Dave and I for skating flat, almost slappy’d the parking block we moved, rolled in casual on the easy part. Dave is sizing up an even longer boardslide. At least it looks like it wont be super easy for him. He killed it in the casual way he usually does. The Texas Plant to slam looked pretty painful though. Fun day and it as tough as it was starting out right after work it was nice having the rest of the evening to chill.
(setup 8.25″ null rabethica deck, venture 5.2 AWAKE lows, venom 90a bushings, 1/16″ riser, old spitfire 101a 50mm F4 wheels, 3 washers on the inside of each axle, nbnumeric 254 cream/gum size 12 with spenco 3/4 thinsoles and Footprint 5mm kingfoam insoles)