skate journal: longmont park for lunch with aki, dave and rob (april 18, 2018)
Went to Longmont park on a nice day. Everyone beat me there. I chose the big board from my quiver again. Warming up wasn’t great. Everyone was doing their own thing to get warmed up. Rob manualling the tops of bank, Dave tailslides on the bank, Aki ollies on the big qp (under coping). Rob called our first try kickflip challenge. I don’t think anyone got it. We tried fly out kickflips then. Aki was first after doing in a line with an axle stall on the big qp, Rob was next, I tried to line it out with a wallie up the snowboard jump but ended up just doing it stand alone. It was a fun feeling. That bank is pretty steep for doing tricks out of. Then everyone was doing their own thing again. I saw Dave do the nollie shove to back tail over the hip which is nuts. He was doing long lines, 360 ollies, kickflips to fakie or on flat, bigspins over the hip, all kinds of ‘old school’ tricks on the noping qp. Also a hilarious varial flip to fakie that was spun half way and rode out of the wrong way. Rob did a few kickflip flyouts, did some flatground to line out crailblocks, backside ollies, one foots, powerslides, tailslides. I never really stuck to anything until the end when I tried 360 flip flyouts and never quite one. Had some slow front 50s on ledges, kickflip to fakie on the bank, halfcab flip the mellow bank. Guess I didn’t really do all that much. Aki had some back 180 melon flyouts, kickflip to fakie on the bank, front 50 across and down. Then we all went back to work. Argh, it was so nice out too. Riding the big board was weird. At times it feels perfect, like trying the 360 flip flyout. On ledges it feels weird though, flatground weird, and especially trying to pop it over the hip felt weird. I was missing the quick snaps of low trucks.
(setup 8.5″ null rabethica deck, venture black icon 5.8 trucks, venom 88a bushings, old 52mm bones stf v5 wheels, 3 washers outside each axle, new balance numeric 212 size 11 with footprints 5mm insoles)