skate journal: ledge training day 1 (june 14, 2017)
With everyone here over the last several day the thing that got me the most hyped was seeing ledge tricks go down. It made me really want to work on it again and no better place to go then research center (well I suppose just about any skatepark would be “better” but I like being able to work my way up and go slow and not have a million people watching). I had a few tricks under my belt like noseslide, noseslide fakie, boardslide pop out, switch front nose, switch front nose to forward before I started trying halfcab noseslide. I got stuck on this one for awhile. Nate showed. I was trying nollie back 180 before the hc noseslide. Nollie is a bit of a stretch as I could probably never even pop over a curb. I got a hc noseslide, but it was terrible. I decided to move on anyway and got a first try crooks to put me back in a good mood. Rob showed and him and Nate mostly skated the manny pad below for awhile. I’m not sure what all went down, but Nate said Rob was ripping and nose manualled the long section. I got a second try terrible back 50 and ended up getting another slow one later where I didn’t touch the wall. I tried a line for awhile that was really run. Ollie up the curb, wallie nollie by the entrance, back 180 off the curb, halfcab flip .. . But I never got the halfcab flip. In fact I slammed pretty hard trying it. Oh well. Rob and Nate joined on the ledge action. Nate tried a line over and over of switch flip then switch front nose. His switch front noseslides are real though with a switch ollie in rather than just turning in like me. Rob boardslide pop out, halfcab boardslide pop out, noseslide (maybe it was a crook attempt?). Fun evening.
(setup 8.38″ null machine deck, venture 5.8 wides, venom 88a bushings, green spitfire F4 52mm classic 99a wheels, 3 washers on the outside of each axle, nbnumeric 254s cream/gum with lunarlon insoles)