skate journal: northglenn early with mostly dave then some brief 50s at safeway (march 18, 2018)
After a long day of skating on Saturday I was up early on Sunday. Dave called saying he was going to Northglenn and to meet him there. I debated it for a bit, but ended up going. I was still sore, but somehow motivated to catch up with Dave. He said was dragging, but when I showed he did a switch front tail on a little hump, boardslide transfer the round pipe into the bank and took a little victory lap around the park. He then worked on shove to back tail over the hip. He got a few good ones. I was kind of all over the place. I almost committed to the gap ollie right away, but ended up moving on. I had a fun run of halfcab flip on flat, boneless the long bank, kickflip to fakie on the hip bank. I hucked a few back 360 kickflips over a snowboard hip that felt very doable. Some were close, most were not. Dave ended with a halfcab boardslide transfer on the round bar to bank that was so gnarly. Then we chatted with an older guy Lyle that showed up at the park. Dave left. I hucked more back 3 flip attempts, but was not as close. Then the scooters started to take over. I hid in the back and did b/s flips over the tiny hip which was fun. Then I skated the bowl with Lyle for a bit. He was doing like 20 foot grinds. I got a 2 foot grind. Ha. It felt cool to skate it though. I was about to leave when Carleigh showed up with Ashlyn and Margaret. So I skated a bit more, but I was sore and mostly just dorked around at that point. I had a fun no comply finger flip to fakie on a mellow bank.
Then I stopped at Safeway ledge because I just wanted to do some back 50s. Not sure I ever got a totally clean one, but I had several where I either touched the wall or tic tac’s a bit during the grind. It was fun. Had some fun front 50s too. I was wearing thinner insoles and they felt better even though the ground hurt a bit more.
(setup 8.125″ null maze deck, venture 5.25 awake lows, 52mm bones stf v5, bones medium bushings, new balance numeric 255 blue size 12, pinnacle powerstep orthotic insole)