skate journal: skating in seattle! (june 11, 2016 day 163)
After a red eye flight, walking through campus, skating a tiny bit, eating a lot and being a grouchy family we ended up at the Seattle Center. The girls split off to do the Space Needle while Ollie and I hung out at the skatepark. I say hung out at because I was dead tired and I could barely muster up the energy to kickturn. Ollie seemed to have more energy and was having fun cruising around the park. He had some 180s and other flowy moves. The only thing I did was a crooks on the ledge that took a long time.
Old Dog Chip picked us up and we went to the Jefferson skatepark to meet up with Josh and crew. The park was mobbed with people. Seeing a kid on a pogo stick was a new one for me. In the bowl even. There were also scooter kids, skaters filming, etc. It was pretty chaotic to walk into. Chip, Ollie and I were having fun though. Josh and Justin would show up after awhile. Josh was ripping that park quickly, it was rad to see. Front and back lip transfers on the qp hip, front 50s the bank 50 ledge and ledge to bank, back tailslides. I was starting to feel good. Had a couple fun noseslides on the bench into the bank, some back 50s over the hip, maybe some more, but it’s all a blur. Ollie was having fun cruising around pushing mongo. Chip was grooving, I thought I saw a kickflip to fakie, but he later said he only got close. Then the rain started to it. We stated a game of SKATE. Ollie watched. I landed a backside flip,but other then that got letters on tricks like fakie flip and front shove (wtf). Then Josh ended my game with another trick I should land – 360 flip. I don’t think the winner was determined as the rain became too much. Fun times seeing those dudes though. Josh rips so hard.
(setup 8.25 null awkward vectors deck, thunder 147 lights stock bushings, 3 washers on inside of axles, 50mm bones stf v1, Es Swifts black/white)