skate journal: crowded day at snow skies (jan 7, 2016 day 7)
Lunch break at “Blue Skies”, but it was overcast with snow forecasted. I arrived last. Aki, Dave and a kid named Austin were there. I wasn’t feeling very energetic and it showed. 4 people is a lot for that park, especially when everyone just wants to do their thing on lunch break. Aki can do good back 50s on the ledge now. Even to back tail. I did some kickflips after a few rolls around the park to try and get warmed up. I would actually feel physically fine after a bit, but was mentally struggling. I couldn’t even stall a front tail going super slow on the ledge. Never got a crooks up the escalator ledge. Came close to kickflip over the low part of the dragon bar. Aki had front 50 up the ledge. Dave did back 50 (I think?) and boardslide up it all good. Then it was time to get back to work.
After helping Ollie with homework I went out to the garage to skate some flatground. I had wanted to do a b/s flip all day. Somehow even though I had already skated I came out swinging with energy. I warmed up with ollies, 180s, shoves, etc then started flipping and went right into b/s flip and heelflip attempts which took forever! I would get several b/s flips, but none I was totally happy with. I was sweating and happy to be skating in the warm garage with some tunes playing. I did a lot more hucking (sw heel, nollie flip, nollie var flip, nollie treflip, switch flip), but only landed treflip and a sketchy varial heel (or two). It was fun though. I guess I did more tricks then that. Oh yeah, I got super close to fakie hardflip. I think if I had more room I would have done it. Flatground is so much fun.
(setup 8.25 null venture 5.2 hi’s 52mm spitfire 99a F4 3 washers inside bones med bushings nb# pj stratford 533 burgundy)