skate journal: jersey barriers, manuals and fakie back tails (oct 7, 2015 day 269)
On a totally beautiful night I set out to complete my missions for the oldfart game of skate. First stop was the Good Times barrier to complete Josh’s mission. It took me awhile to do a regular wallride actually, but once I did it was on and the one to fakie was pretty easy. This spot is way scarier then a normal barrier to wallride.
Then I met Dave at Valmont. We did our manual warm up routine, however this I got manual right away rather then taking 20 tries. Whew. Dave and I both did lines with manual and nose manual. I got a switch front 180 manual at one point, but failed to back it up with 180 nose manual. Dave waxed up a section of curb next to the manny pad and was trying boardslide 270 to manual. Seriously. Ha. He got somewhat close. I tried some switch boardslides or 50s to manual. Dave was boardsliding really far. Then we kind of hucked for awhile, Dave trying various 180s in or out of manuals. I struggled with kickflips up the curb. I did feel good on my board for awhile at least.
Then we went to the ledge so I could try fakie back tails for Nate’s challenge. I tried on not as low part for awhile, but could barely get into it. I got a few on the low part like in the clip, but none were good. Dave would get one too. I was trying flip tricks between every try and not landing hardly anything. I was getting wheel bite all of the time. Argh. Alight night at least, felt good at times.
(setup 8.1 null venture lows 51mm spitfire f4 nb# pj stratford 533 white/gum)