skate journal: campus fun with rob and dave (may 15, 2016 day 136)
Went under the Engineering Bld on a cool and wet night. I arrived before Dave and Rob and warmed up pretty good and was actually feeling motivated and skating ok. I had sone a few slappy tailslides in the narrow area by the rail, back 50s off the 3 stair curb, kickflip variations were working well, etc. Rob and Dave showed up as I was trying to get the courage to slappy crook the 3 stair curb. But it was too straight and I couldn’t. I was bummed to hear that Rob and Dave didn’t like the spot. It’s got good flatground, curbs, ledges, 3 stairs, benches, etc. Oh well. We still skated it for awhile while it dried up outside. Dave had a banger line of slappy noseslide the narrow curb, front 180 into a bank, turn around, ollie up a 3 stair then front 180 the next. Hammers! I had a great line for me of front 50 the narrow curb, kickflip into the bank and then ollie up the 3 stair. The front 50s felt so cool there as the ledge is chunky.
Then we went to this bank to curb. Rob had a front tail right away. The worst part about this spot is you can’t really see what your friends are doing. I think Dave got a back tail, Rob a back 180 fakie 50. I took awhile to get a front 180 fakie 50 to cab out. The one I rode away from had a nice lunchbreak in the middle.
It started raining. We were walking back and saw this hallway. Wallie nollies were done by all. Then we all learned wallie nollies to fakie. Well, I say we “all”, but I’m not sure what mine technically was. Then we hit the ‘kicker’ for awhile. Dave had some good ollies and back 180s over it. Rob had no comply shoves, bean plants, front shoves. Dave took awhile to get a kickflip. I took awhile to do backside flip and then even longer to do 360 flip. Dave was close to 360 flip. I offered him a free board if he beat me. He was close. This was the most fun I’ve had skating in awhile. 🙂
(setup 8.25 null abstract 5 deck, venture lows, venom 91a bushings, 3 washers on inside of axles, 50mm bones stf v1, New Balance Numeric PJ Stratford 533 burgandy/gum)