skate journal: #cali4niahotstubborns day 2 in the heat at LA High then nice and cool bank to curb in Long Beach (sept 2, 2017)
After visiting a cool shop Lotties we hit up LA High in another 100 degree day. The shade wasn’t too bad, but the sun was crazy. We all seemed to do our own thing for awhile. For me that meant not much of anything because I was so sore. I got a couple slow boardslides and 50s. Jack had some rad wallies over the corners, tailslides. Dave was shredding. Wallies into front or back grinds like it was nothing, boardslides to fakie. Fuzz had some solid wallie 50s. Nate with the front boardslide to fakie. Birthday girl had been talking with family on the phone then came out and did a sick line of axle stall, wallie 50 and rock fakie. Then a ‘dork’ session ensued on the bank to wall. Rob had kicked it off with a wallie to wallie/nollie which I tried too. Then it turned into bonelesses, ghostrides, power slides, etc. It was so incredibly fun. It’s hard to describe the tricks. Fuzz did an alley oop boneless wallride to pivot. Rob did some kind of beanplant wallride varial. I had a powerslide to slappy 50. Dave was doing bluntslides. Jack was ruling the ghostride variations. Nate was doing powerslides too. The ghostrides were so fun. Thank you for the shade. I loved the dork session.
After a drive, some In ‘N Out, and a swim in the ocean we ended up at this awesome bank to curb spot. Of course it’s harder to skate than it looks. Not much runway because of water, the curb being really short, etc. But stock tricks were rattled off quickly. I was hyped on getting hurricane first try. Rob beat me to a kickflip back 50. He did it like 3rd try, I never really landed it, but did get one accidental back smith. Nate did front pivot to fakie and a couple quick footed 360 flips to fakie. Fuzz did a bunch of tricks including his fakie pivots, front tail fakie. Rob also had no comply disaster. Jack with the fancy back axle to front axle to fakie and a lot of other tricks. Dave probably did 100 tricks including back tailslide and chink chink. He also kept skating while Carleigh was doing her epic birthday blunt. The stoke was so high when she landed it. It was a pretty magical session with a completely epic ender.
(setup 8.38 null spanbauer 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 burgundy, spenco 3/4 thinsoles and FP 5mm insoles)