skate journal: louisville street spots with jack and carleigh (sept 8, 2019)
Feeling even better on a nice Sunday I headed out to hit the metal curb spot in Louisville. But when I drove by there was a handful of scooter kids so I went right on by. I ended up at this school Neil and I skated a few times. It wasn’t as great looking as a I remember, but still cool. And a good place for me to loosen up the legs and start trying tricks again. Which is what I did for quite awhile before Jack and Carleigh showed. Stall trick on the bottom step, flatground trick, trick on the weird narrow bank. First line was front tail stall, kicklfip, side rock. Next was back pivot, heelflip, ollie to fakie. The term “ollie to fakie” might not actually represent the tiny no pop hop to fakie I did. Next was front axle on the 2nd step, backside flip, fakie tail stall. I was hyped to get on the 2nd step. Jack and Carleigh showed as I got another line or was doing it better. Front tail to fakie, halfcab flip, a weird side front tail flop off. Jack went right to the stairs. After a kickflip he did the nollie tre pretty quick. Carleigh did some bean plants down the 3. I felt the peer pressure and skated the stairs too. Well, I lined out something to the stairs. Pop shove, wallie nollie, ollie. Carleigh did a bunch of no complies down the stairs. Jack had broken his board on a nollie flip then setup a new one and got one pretty quick down the 3. Then we all skated the narrow bank for a bit. I tried front tail to front rock for a bit then gave up sore. I had landed on a couple varial heels, but with the hands down. Carleigh got the axle stall. It’s way harder than it looks. Jack had tried several tricks. Kinda close to back noseblunt, treflip to fakie. He got pivot fakie, a pivot ollie back in thing.
We left for another spot. I forgot to take a photo. But it was basically a 6-7 stair with a wood ramp extending out of it. Carleigh didn’t really skate it. I did some weird frontside ollie where my nose kinda noseslid the rail. Then I filmed Jack 5-0 transfer it which is as gnarly as it sounds. Then I attempted to shake off the sore legs and did a little boneless tail bonk transfer. It felt cool. Jack filmed it great too. Fun day. Glad we got out in the streets.
(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 5/10)