skate journal: dog park before work (aug 19, 2019)
On a hot morning I went to the dog park before work since I have the late shift. I had the place to myself for an hour with the exception of a quick 5 minute session from another older skater. I started better than normal even though I had put the 8.75″ deck back on. Tried a line of switch noseslide a concrete bench, wallie the smaller barrier, noseslide to fakie the back of the step ledge, fakie flip, halfcab noseslide, crook. I only got to the halfcab noseslide once and bailed it. Tried a line of front 50 a concrete bench, front 5-0 the end of the little narrow ledge, back 50 the low step, didn’t get the back 50. At one point I did a little hippy jump over the tiny kinked rail. It was nothing. That’s what I liked about it so much. That trick was scary to me, but because of how awesome the dog park is for my skating I just did it without thinking. Then I went in on the ollie over a concrete bench. It took 12 minutes. Ha, I know this because I filmed it. In between tries I was doing some of the best feeling kickflips I’ve done in awhile. After ‘getting’ the ollie I putzed around some more. Got a couple good feeling halfcab noseslides. I ended the session with the best treflip I’ve done on flat in awhile.
(setup 8.75 null event horizon 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 533v2 gray stock insoles)
(pain level 3/10)