skate journal: #cloggingyourfeedwithstokepartdeux day 4 seattle vert ramp, roxhill, judkins, benefit, bellevue (march 30, 2018)
Just look at the list of spots we skated in one day. What were we thinking???? Anyway, Joe, Nate, Josh and I started our day at the infamous SVR. We were there at 10am. Josh was cool about letting us play on the bottom with no expectations or attitude. The three of us joked and tried to run up and hang on the coping. I think I was the only one that didn’t touch it. We pumped around. Man it’s a lot of work on 51mm wheels. Ha. Josh dropped in right away. It’s insane. It’s 13.5 feet tall! Josh did some airs, grinds right out of the gate. He even dropped in on the extension which is so gnarly. Might have to start calling him Joshy Way. The 3 “street” skaters kept it to the qp and well under vert. There will be a video post above too at some point. We all took some time to get different tricks. Joe did the silly hat trick rock, f/s halfcabs, front shove to fakie, switch front shove, fakie front shove and a kickflip to fakie. Nate was hilarious. He was doing flatground kickflips and then turning around to do a kickflip on the qp. It was pure comedy the way he was falling. He did have some good front slashes on the little qp. I was having fun trying different ways to get hyped for a kickflip. Front slash, axle stall, front rock. I ended up getting a line that felt incredible. Axle stall, weak f/s ollie, b/s flip, kickflip to fakie. When you see the footage you’ll see I was like 10 feet under vert, but it felt incredibly fun. Oh yeah, I had a couple early grabs that we jokingly compared to Josh’s. For all of those wondering, I soundly beat Josh in the ‘Who did it better?’ poll. Ha ha. What a fun session.
Then we went to a park called Roxhill and joined up with Justin and Nolan. After a few cruises around everyone else decided everyone should boardslide the tiny rail. I was scared. Ha. Luckily when it came my time to do it I was able to get it. Josh went on to murder the bank to ledge. Front 50, back 50, front 180 180, back feeble (I think), crooks to fakie and probably like 10 more tricks. Nolan had a sick crooks on it, some rad lines with feebles on the flat bar, back tail or smith the tall qp, noseblunt the bank so perfectly. Joe was getting in on the bank to ledge too. Front 50, front 50 180 out. Nate, Nolan, Justin, Josh nose manualled the manny pad. I had fun doing front 50s on it. I never got a bank to ledge trick. I did have some fun long back 50s or 5-0s on the bank at the top. We played a game of SKATE. Oldest to youngest again. I didn’t do as well, but it did get further into the order. Josh got everyone with front 180 one foot. I came surprisingly close to getting it. I forget what I got out on. Nolan got a turn and did his patented ‘Shit Flip’ which resulted in a bunch of people trying it at the park. Pretty funny. There was a rad crew there. One dude that looked like Kalis who was destroying the ledge. Halfcab noseslide nollie heel out. I tried a few noseslide 270 shoves, but then it was time to go.
We split up for awhile. Josh, Joe and I went to Judkins. We lasted long enough for me to roll in on a 4 foot section and do a disaster on a tiny qp. Joe did a front 50. But we weren’t feeling the vibes at that park.
So we went to Benefit which was a rad park, but I was too dead for it. It had some weird tiny hip that was fast one way and slow the other, a bunch of ledges, a qp, manual pad, pole jam and some angry kids playing basketball. Joe went to work on the ledge. He got a couple new tricks. Front lip to front 50 shove out, front lip front shove front board out, smith 180 out. Josh was lining out the quarterpipe with every transition trick, hitting the manual pad with manual, nose manual or nose manual 180 then popping some ollies over the hip. His friend Ken joined us for a bit and did some stylee qp tricks. I did a b/s flip over the hip, a couple qp tricks, couldn’t ollie up the manual pad or ledges and then spent a long time trying no comply pole jams which I ended up getting right as it was time to go. Fun ender for the day.
Or so I thought. We ended up at Bellevue that night too. I was so beat. It was Josh, Nate, Joe and I and we met up with Pat. I was so sore and tired I could hardly ollie onto the 4″ tall hubba. I don’t know how everyone else was still popping. Nate and Josh wallied a plastic barrier. Nate did his boardslide transfer a bunch and some manauals up and down the bank. Josh wallied over the cement barrier. Joe was lining out the ledge on the bottom with tricks over the hip, even doing back 50s on the drop down ledge. I don’t remember much more until everyone but Joe started messing around with the ride on stair grinds. Easily my favorite part of the night. Ha. We normally went frontside on the 2nd stair. I had a fun front 50 back 180 into the bank. Pat was going for smith. Josh had to go backside. he did like 3 tricks in a row at one point. Back 50, back 50 to bank ride, back 50 front 180 out. We ended as Joe boardslid the rail. Then we went and loaded up on crappy food as we had burned so many calories skating all day.
(setup 8.25 null atomic cowboy deck, black venture 5.8 v-light, 3 washers outside each axle, 88a venom bushings, 51mm bones stf v1 wheels, old swiss bearings, new balance numeric 255 baby blue size 12, spenco 3/4 thinsole with 5mm footprints insole)