skate journal: curbs with everyone! (sept 7, 2019)
On a warm and sunny Saturday I went over to the curb feeling slightly better with the plan of meeting almost every older skater I know. It was awesome. I probably wont even remember everyone that skated, but it was Jake, Saul, Rob, Dave, Simon, Dave L, Sean, Kevin, Fuzz and me. So sick! At first I didn’t think I’d be able to skate much, but it did loosen up. Over a few hours I didn’t really do anything much. I had a couple kickflips which made me happy and several slappies. Jake was the first to leave so he gets first dibs in the journal. Slappy bluntslides, slappy crooks, 360 flip. Saul with the long slappies, consistent front slappies, front slappy around the hook. Sean was next to go. He had some ripping kickflips into and out of the banks. Some long front tails, relearned halfcab 50s. In fact he did it in a line. Halfcab 50, kickflip up the curb to quick wallie a rock gap. Rob was a little stiff from tons of hiking. Still saw him rip the back 50 no comply shove out, slappy crooks, kickflips, beanplants, something new I’m forgetting right now. Man it ruled seeing Simon skate again. He rips. Such a natural. Real long slappies, switch slappy, slappy crooks, switch slappy crook, fast kickflips and 180s, bluntslide to 50. Kevin was sore from a couple weeks off the board too. He had still done some solid flippers, back 50s, halfcab 50 back 180, back tail into the bank. He had a rad line with a silly pole grab to grind then manual to wallie the rock gap. He was also the first to notice my silly trucks which I had hoped no one would notice. I was hyped when Fuzz somewhat gave me props on having the courage to try them. FYI two days in still liking them. Speaking of Fuzz, he also rips. Took him a bit to get that line he’s tried a bunch, but man it was good when he did it. Ollie into the curb cut, front 180 out, fakie nosegrind 180 out. Also some killer slappy noseslides, switch ones, nollie tails, powerful style. Fuller was the last one to arrive to the session he organized. Ha. Darn football traffic. He killed it though. Slappy switch crook shove, halfcab back 50 back 180 out, slappy crooks shove, slappies, sex changes, switch ollies and switch back 180s into the curb cut, ride on back 50 to back tail. Dave L has the best slappy of anyone I’ve seen. He does them to 5-0 and almost got a shove out too. Did a nice front tail 270 shove, casual manuals. Super fun session even though I didn’t really skate.
(setup 8.25 null abstract #6 deck, Mini Logo 8.38 trucks, spitfire f4 101a 51mm classic wheels, 2 washers inside each axle, stock mini logo bushings, new balance numeric 913 Westgates b/w, stock insoles)
(pain level 7/10)