skate journal: jason memorial jam part 1 at launch with an amazing crew (april 29, 2017)
I am writing this way too late unfortunately and will voice right away that I am going to forget a lot of what happened. Around 20-30 people showed up at Launch to skate for Jason. Andy is one incredibly awesome dude and he let us have the place for a Jason memorial jam. I started in the corner that has the parking block qp and stayed there the whole time. So I have no idea what transpired on the ramp. Jeff, Jack, Carleigh, Nate and eventually Max stayed in the area too. Nate started it off with a tailslide off the deck of the ramp into the bank. Nate also did the sickest no complys. Carleigh was doing backside blunts so good, then did them in a line with no comply to tail and back d on the regular quarterpipe. Jack did all kinds of wallrides down to disaster, a million bigpsin pivots and one to nosepick that I missed on camera, frontside noseslide/bonk the wall, lots of funny falls. I haven’t seen Jeff skate in a long time and it totally ruled. Pivot to takie then fakie flip into the bank, frontside flip the bank, nollie flip into the bank, blunt to fakie, manual up/down, 3 flip into the bank, a million more tricks. It ruled seeing Jeff. I had done a b/s flip 1/4 of the way up the mellow 1/4 pipe then wanted to do kickflip to fakie on it. The only way I had the motivation was to line it out with a silly boring stall trick like front 50 yank in, front feeble, hurricane (most of which took longer than they should), but I kept not getting it. Dylan joined us for awhile, totally ripping. He did a switch flip on the qp and made me keep trying the reg flip and made me do some tiny ollies to fakie which ended up being the most helpful advice as I landed it a few tries later. I was quite hyped. I have never done a kickflip to fakie on transition before. Max had joined and did a million tricks. Wallride into the bank, super popped front noseblunts, noseblunt to nose manual (wtf) and also lots of funny slams. Brian had joined for a bit trying perhaps the craziest trick ever. Blunt to fakie on the parking block qp then fakie tail skid to blunt fakie into the bank. He had some horrendous slams, but he said they weren’t as bad as the last time he was there trying that trick. Crazy! He didn’t get it, but it was close for sure.
(setup 8.25 null fortune deck, venture 5.2 low awake trucks, 1/16″ risers, venom 91a bushings, swiss bearings, 50mm spitfire classic formula 4 wheels, new balance numeric pj 533 black/white 12 stock insoles)