skate journal: dog park sunday (dec 8, 2019)

Got to the dog park around 10am feeling a bit more motivated and with cupsoles to hopefully reduce the pain. Dave L was there as was Joe. Joe was trying fakie hardflip nosegrind. Whoa! He rips. Warming up went better for the most part. I struggled a bit more with pop, but actually did like 3 flip tricks. Dave L was ripping. He would go on to get front and back hurricanes on the cinder block ledge. So sick. Joe was ripping with a lot of pop over cones, barriers, lots of flippers and lots of hardflips. Never did get the fakie hard nosegrind though. I got up on the black ledge again, this time without running over my hand (ha). I coudn’t get a fakie nosegrind, but I did get a switch front nose shove which I haven’t done on the cinder block bench before. I also had some good feeling crooks on the black ledge, crooks to fakie the cinder block bench, halfcab noseslide to fakie, front 50 shove, couldn’t get front 50 back 180 out through. Sean showed up and quickly did back 5-0s and nosegrinds like they aren’t even tricks. He had some pops over a bunch of things. His style is so smooth and solid. Then we went to the same campus spot and I sat in the freezing wind filming Sean almost get a sick grind to manual combo. I was even more sore than the day before. It was cool though, Daryl and crew showed up. Those guys are so rad. Eventually the wind was too much and the sight of some cops in the distance ended the session.

(setup 8.5″ null curby deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.8 titanium trucks with regular cast baseplate, bones medium bushings, 3 speed washers inside each axle, 52mm spitfire classic green swirl f4 99a, new balance numeric 533v2 pj grey size 13 stock insoles)
(pain level 6/10)