skate journal: brief boulder park then research ledge for a couple hours (april 5, 2015 day 92)
Had a fun Easter morning with the fam. Took a nap then went out skating. I’ve been feeling the warming up on tranny so I actually went to Boulder park. Wow. It wasn’t too crowded when I arrived. I pumped the bowl a few times, hit the mini ramp area a few times. Then a group of helmet wearing kids kind of took over with their stupid game of follow the leader. So I left to the research center. I must admit the PJ influence from the latest NB edit wants me to skate ledges better. I posted up on this ledge and put together several new ones for me at this spot. I started with noseslide. Then noseslide fakie. And then my newish trick of noseslide shove which took a bit. I almost did a few noseslide bigspins out on accident. Maybe I’ll work on that one later. Then crooks and back 50. Then I went for crooks shove which I’ve never done on a non-park ledge before. It took a minute, but I got one. And oh man did it feel cool. Then I went for back 50 shove out. Got the first one, but it was horrible. Worked awhile longer and did a better one. Still not great, but for the most part I’m just happy I’m kind of getting back 50s again. Next up was halfcab noseslide which I did slow. Then I lined things out for a bit. Front 180 up the curb, fakie flip, switch front nose to regs. First try. Horrible. Then front 180 up curb, fakie flip, switch front nose. This one felt pretty cool. Then lined out kickflip up the curb followed by crooks to fakie. That one felt great. I was doing flipppers when going uphill or after lines too. No treflips. Got close to fakie treflips. I had done a few frontside ledge tricks too. Just a few basics because I don’t really like skating this ledge uphill. Last trick was kick back 50. And wow was it a struggle. Like 30 minutes straight and not going fast struggle. The one I eventually got had a hand touch on the wall, but it was locked in pretty good and made me feel good. I left after that feeling pretty satisfied having done 4 tricks I’ve never done on that ledge before. Noseslide shove, crooks shove, back 50 shove and kick back 50.
(setup 8.25 null venture wides bones med bushings spitfire f4 50mm 101s)