skate journal: relearning kickflips at blue skies (may 4, 2016 day 125)
On a beautiful day I met Rob, Dave, Aki and randomly Dan at Blue Skies for lunch. Rob and I were there first. I missed my first kickflip. And the second. The third and the 4th. Ugh! New shoe blues! I was bummed immediately. Dave showed up ripping out of the gates. He would go on to do a line with front 50 and back feeble on flat bars and a fakie 3 shove on the bank. Aki had lines for days. Front boards, kickflips, nollie front 50s, back 50s. Rob was going off. Boardslide one of the taller ledges, almost crooks on it, ollies over the flatbar like they was nothing, boardslide down the kinked ledge, crail blocks, etc. We were all surprised when another skater showed and even more surprised it was someone we knew. Dan! He rips! And he ripped! Ha. Back 50 transfer the round bar, lipslide the low ledge, back 50 up the escalator, treflip, almost switch treflip, but he can’t nollie tre! I did! The one redeeming thing I did was a couple sloppy nollie tres. I had been trying kickflips on flat (and getting really mad when I didn’t land one) and then kickflip to fakie on the little bank with the big crack at the bottom. It was a dumb thing to try, but for whatever reason I kept trying. I really don’t like this park very much.
(setup 8.25 null awkward vector, venture lows, bones medium bushings, 3 washers on inside of axles, 51mm stf v2, New Balance Numeric PJ Stratford 533 burgandy/gum)