skate journal: friday at the dog park with dave and rob (aug 16, 2019)
We used to call this Flatground Friday. We all showed up around the same time. We mentioned we should skate flatground, but we messed basically just started out on the obstacles. It was cool after the rearrangement it was like a new park. We had the whole park to ourselves for quite awhile too. Warming up is never easy, especially after a full week of work. I had finally remembered to swap out my bushings. I put some Bones mediums in. They felt really good. Dave did a quick up to boardslide the 1/2 step. Then he did it frontside. Rob got in on it and did the boardslide too. Rob had some lines with manual or nose manual, front board on the tall metal bench, kickflips. I started settling on a line with a trick on a concrete bench in the corner, trick on the tiny pad, attempt to ollie the barrier off the kicker. I never got a clean line, but had some fun crooks and halfcab noseslides, manuals and nose manuals. I committed to several ollies, but only rode sketchily away from one . Dave was trying with me. His line was a kickflip then a front board transfer the bench, but he ended up doing back 5-0 on the tiny pad then ollie. He got a couple clean ones. I really noticed how I wanted a bigger board for the ollie. I also tried a few boardslides on the weird bar on top of the tiny pad. I wanted a bigger board for that too. Argh. One other thing I had done which I hadn’t done before was halfcab boardslide the small flat bar. Dave and I messed around with halfcab noseslide 270. Then we played a game of SKATE. It started terribly for me as I got SK on pop shove then SKA on front shove. I almost focused my board and left. I did redeem myself with heelflip and halfcab flip, but then fizzled out again on treflip, b/s flip and lost on a cab. I watched Rob and Dave finish the battle. I think Rob won it on a back 360.
(setup 8.5 Null Lazer deck, venture trucks 5.8 cast baseplate titanium hanger , bones medium bushings, sml 53mm og wide wheels, 2 speed washers inside each axle, new balance numeric 212 gray size 12, spenco 3/4 orthotic under footprint 5mm insoles)
(pain level 4/10 pain in left ball of foot)