skate journal: flatground friday with dave and jake (april 27, 2018)
On a totally gorgeous day I went to Dog Park in the middle of the day after a nice birthday breakfast for Ollie. Jake and Dave were saying flip tricks weren’t working as I rolled up. So I did a first try kickflip to create some hype. Then I went on to barely be able to ollie. Ha ha. Dave and Jake were hopping over the cone pretty easily. Dave said it was hard for him, but it looked casual. Dave did a bunch of varial flips, easier than kickflips. I struggled with heelflips, but got a second try nollie tre. Jake was struggling, but got a solid 3 flip then a line with ollie over the cone, kickflip and maybe halfcab over? I kind of lined out halfcab flip then ollie over the cone (I’m not sure I made it over though). Then we played a game of SKATE. It was a pretty awesome game with quite a bit of variety and everyone with a similar amount of letters. I was happy to get a 360 filp before Jake for the first time in like a year and it even gave Jake a letter. Dave went on to win it with a sex change. Jake took off and Dave and I hucked for awhile. I tried fakie hardflips. Never came too close, but did commit a couple times. Dave tried those and f/s halfcab flips. Then heelflips and switch heelflips which he got closer to. I took awhile to get a b/s hc heelflip. It felt good at least. I got a f/s halfcab flip, but couldn’t get fs hc heelflip. We both tried switch tres for awhile. I wasn’t remotely close. Dave was putting one foot on them, but also one foot on the ground. He really should try that trick more often. Then we just kind of ended feeling tired and humbled by how hard skateboarding is.
(setup 8.38 null monico deck, venture black icon 5.8 trucks, bones medium bushings, 51mm bones stf v1 wheels, 3 washers outside each axle, new balance numeric 212 size 11 with footprints gamechanger orthotic insoles)