skate journal: valmont bank for a couple hours (oct 2, 2016 day 276)

valmont bank

Feeling very lazy on a warm Sunday I drove to a few spots before settling on this bank. I started slow and worked my way through the trick list. Started with all 4 variations of cab without ollieing, Then all 8 shoves, kickflip to fakie, f/s and b/s kickflips, halfcab flips. Took awhile to get a heelflip to fakie. Wanted to do a new trick so tried front heel for a long time, didn’t get it. Ended up going for fakie heel instead and would eventually get a bad one. It felt cool though, I’ve never done that on a bank before. Then I tried 360 flip to fakie and got one with one hand down (hand down!). Tried nollie varial flip for awhile, didn’t get too close then switch flip for awhile and got close. On the way back to the runway I tried a lot of nollie heels. Got kind of close. I would commit, but the board just didn’t flip enough. For how lazy and sore I was feeling this was a decent session.

(setup null message 8.125 deck, venture 5.2 v-hollow lows, 1/16″ riser, thunder bushings, 3 washers inside each wheel, 50mm STF V1, new balance numeric pj 533 steel/gum)