skate journal: ledge/flat and 10×10 at valmont (sept 24, 2015 day 258)
Went out to Valmont not feeling so great around the time it got dark. Skated the ledge for awhile and did some flatground there and there. The ledge was fun, I went through a few basics. Still struggled with front tails and getting front 50s up on the medium part. My trucks feel tighter with the new larger wheels, it’s weird. Harder to do stuff. Tried backside hurricanes for awhile. Got into most of them, but didn’t grind or get the pop out. Tried f/s haflcab noseslide for awhile and didn’t get very close. Had a fun line of kickflip up the curb, heelflip on flat and ollie off the loading dock. I tried to lift my back foot up, not sure if I did though.
Then went over and skated flat for about 10 minutes doing the basics before attempting the 10×10. The 10×10 is up for debate, not sure Josh and I want to keep doing it, it’s so hard. I wasn’t feeling very good on flatground so I knew the results would be bad. Especially when it took 8 tries to get a varial flip. I was actually surprised I landed the 3 flip. That put me in a better mood until I couldn’t get fakie tre, halfcab heel and nollie flip. Ugh. The cab bigflip wasn’t close. I can’t seem to spin like I did magically the first day I tried that trick. I do want to get that one down though, somehow that seems like the easiest way to cab. Nollie bigflip wasn’t close, but the nollie inward heel totally felt doable. I left right after.
(setup 8.1 null venture lows 51mm spitfire f4 nb# pj stratford 533 white/gum)