skate journal: getting stubborn early on campus with dave (july 10, 2016 day 192)
Met Dave at 7am at our parking lot. Dave was already ripping. Warming up at 7am is even harder then later in the day. I just did some spin around tail stalls and stuff. Dave was doing shoves, manuals and switch ollies. We rolled into campus with no plans. Ended up first doing some cali grinds off this little 4 stair thing. Then went to the flagstone manny pad. Dave did boardslides and switch boardslides in. I did a little front board transfer in and a couple basic tricks like it was a qp. We moved on and randomly found the little angle iron curb above. It was fun. Dave did good front 50s, front 5-0s, front 50 back 180 into the “bank”, fakie b/s nosegrind, back 50, and b/s nosegrind! I did back 50, back 5-0 where I did a crappy front 180 into the ramp, front nosegrind. Then I tried a line for forever. Front 5-0, kickflip, b/s flip the 3 stair. Man I got close. It was the hardest I’ve skated in forever. I was totally covered in sweat, sore, almost passing out from heat exhaustion, etc. It was awesome. Except I didn’t ever really land the b/s flip. Argh. I haven’t tried to flip down stairs in a long time. Doh, we looked for water. I may have looked composed, but I really did think I was going to pass out or puke. After that I just kind of filmed Dave rip as he always does. Bluntslides, bluntslide combos, solid ollies, eggplants off drops. You guys are going to love his Stubborns part.
(setup 8.12 Habitat Suciu deck, venture low lights, standard thunder bushings, 1/16″ riser, 3 washers inside each axle, 51mm STF V1, Es Sal black/gum)