skate journal: more rain more rampy (may 8, 2015 day 124)
So I’m supposed to learn backside bonelesses now for the game of #theglenandjosholdfartlongdistanceinstagramtricksuperchallenge. I have never tried it before. Not even on the streets. So I went out to Rampy on a rainy Friday afternoon. Did some warming up with normal runs and felt pretty good. The new PJs are really grippy. Got front feeble, front tail, couldn’t get front d to surgarcane. Then I tried a bunch of back bonelesses. None of them even resembled a back boneless. I could not keep my back foot with the board. I would be telling myself as I went up the wall “only take the front foot off” then a second later my back foot would be on the coping. Ugh. I don’t think I’ll be doing that trick on Rampy. But I’ll probably keep trying. I skated flat a lot too. Went through a few basics before trying switch heels for a long time. I got soooo close. It really got me excited. I still have a long ways to go, but feel like it’s finally at least possible. At the end I got an itch to try hardflips and put my feet on a couple of them, but never quite got it. Either way, I was hyped. Also did a fakie varial flip revert. Ha, going oh so slow. Fun day, I skated really hard.
(setup 8.25 null venture wides bones med bushings stf 51mm nb+ pj stratfords)