skate journal: flatground and ledgy with jack then some valmont manny pad action (feb 7, 2016 day 38)

Pre game front blunts by @jackspanbauer. #gobroncos #ledgy 📷 @corpoglenny

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Brought Ledgy out and found some decent flatground to put it. I started with mostly flatground and tried to skate a little faster again. Man it makes tricks so much more difficult and I was once again unable to land a 360 flip. Ugh. I did have a few decent heelflips at least. I did a back 50 first try on Ledgy which was relieving, but then it took awhile to get it again. Argh. Jack showed up and immediately started trying pop shove crooks which he would eventually land. Along with kick back tail, front smith, a bunch more tricks. It’s rad skating with Jack. He is infinitely better at skating with me, but I still feel like I can skate like myself around him. I didn’t really land anything else, but tried a few front crooks.

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Then we went to Valmont manual pads. I was so sore I couldn’t even ollie up the curb for awhile. Jack did a manual the long way to back 50 right away. I would try it for the next hour before getting it. Ha. In the meantime Jack also did manual kickflip back tail. So crazy! He also did a bunch of back 180 fakie manual halfcabs out. Even one with a fakie bigspin out. I got somewhat close to nose manuals and kickflips manuals, but really I was just sore and stoked to be skating with Jack. Finally getting the long manual to 50 was pretty darn fun.

(setup 8.25 null venture 5.2 hi’s 3 washers inside 52mm spitfire 99a F4 venom 91a bushings nb# pj stratford 533 patriot)