skate journal: grey skies at blue skies lunch break (jan 16, 2015)
Went to Blue Skies skatepark for my lunch break. It was 40 degrees. 20 degrees shy of the forecasted high. There was goose crap all over the park. I actually went through the effort of kicking lots of it out of the park. Then I had to clean my shoe in the grass. Ugh. The main bank was snowy. I skated for quite awhile before Dave showed. It was fun, but the lines were messed because of the goose crap traps everywhere even after I tried to clean it. I got on some fast feeling front 50s, front 50 shove, posed some noseslide bigspins out, posed front smiths on the ledge, did some horrible slow front boards on the flat bar, noselid the flat bar, hands down 360 flip on flat, couldn’t get up the big ledge. Was hyped to get a line of crooks the low ledge, ollie a flat bar with enough speed to then back 180 the curved round bar. Couldn’t kickflip the round bar, that’s a goal. Also want to switch front 180 it. Dave showed up. He was doing fakie shoves on the main bank in the narrow path without snow, boardslides, front 50s, flowing on the little banks, one foot front tail on the qp. I didn’t do much new after Dave showed. Tiny crooks jib on the flat bar, posed kickflip noseslides. It was the best I’ve felt on my board mentally in awhile though. Oh yeah at the end we posed front 50s on the flat bar. We set our boards on and then ran and jumped on. Well, Dave ran and jumped. I was scared and barely did it. So the photo above isn’t a real front 50, what are you gonna do about it?
(setup 8″ venture lows bones med bushing spitfire four 50mm wheels)