skate journal: fun at golden park in the morning (aug 26, 2017)
After bringing India to Wheat Ridge HS to take her SAT I went to Golden park. I was the first one there around 7:45am. Yikes. I started with the new routine of a mostly stationary kickflip. Got the 6th one. Not too bad. Then I just kind of cruised around. Did a few noseslides, carved the Big O, manualled the little manual pad, etc. A couple other people showed including Jake. We ended up getting into these lines pretty much around then. Except I had been starting my lines with crooks on the stand alone ledge then wallie onto the ledge like Jake. The ollie over the curb hip was harder for both of us than it looks, but it was fun. Pretty hyped on my line. I got the line once before, but both the kickflip and ollie were terrible so I’m glad I did them again. Should have probably done a frontside flip instead, but oh well. Then Jake and I played on the manny pad area for awhile. Actually, so did Saul. He ollied up it. Pretty rad. I got a nose manual, Jake got real close to manual front 180 out. Jake came close to front crooks on the little bench. I didn’t get close to front nosegrind at all, but did get remotely close to kick back tail.
Then we skated the bowl for awhile. It’s very fun to carve. After Saul’s it’s crazy how much setup time each wall has. I got on axle stall. Saul had a bunch of slashes. Jake padded up and put down front smiths and fsa’s in the deep. So sick. Then we skated the tiny qp for awhile. The tricks shown are basically everything we did. It was a fun session. Jake and I said we’d do new tricks and we did. Mine was the silly front axle body varial. I got one to fakie too. Jakes was the noseblunt 180. Textbook. Really fun day even though the sun wrecked me. It was super hot.
(setup 8.5 null rabethica deck, venture 5.8 trucks, venom 91a bushings, no bottom washer, spitfire f4 101a 51mm classic wheels, 3 washers on the outside of each axle, nbnumeric 212 sand, spenco 3/4 thinsoles and FP 5mm insoles)