skate journal: spring canyon with another fun crew (aug 12, 2018)
Dave, Rob, Kevin and I met up with Sean at Spring Canyon on a warm and sunny day. I was hyped to see Skelly there when we arrived, fixing the pool coping. That dude is a workaholic. He did manage to skate with us a little, but he was pretty beat from working so hard. It was good seeing him. I find this park to be hard to warm up at normally, but it seemed easier than normal today. Maybe it was Sean grinding the tallest ledge within minutes. I mean I hope there are some kind of benefits of skating with him. Rob was manualling at speed right away, Kevin was doing tech tricks, Dave was boardsliding the spine. I got a first try (really slow) back 50 on the lurb which put me in a good mood. I would soon after get a line of nose manual, front slash the mound, back 50 shove. I slash the mound as a means of speed control to slow me down for the lurb. Smart huh? Or maybe I’m just a wuss. I tried front nosegrinds for awhile and got really close, but then the potato chip session started. I tried to play with Sean and Kevin with the ollie up then kickflip on the hump, then trick on the tight qp. Rob was in on it too, he got the ollie and kickflip, but avoided the qp. I had a better line than the one showed with a front rock instead of back rock. I mean, in my head it was better, but who knows, I probably scraped my heel on the kickflip. Kevin’s lines were crazy. Doing it switch too is bonkers. Sean’s made the line look effortless, but took awhile to get the sweeper. And oh man, that slam on the nollie nosegrind (which he had never done before) was crazy. Everyone was skating, it’s hard to remember everything. Rob got a few boardslides up that ledge which is gnarly to me, but never combined it with the downhill part. Things I was happy with were finally nose manualling the main manny pad, crooks the bench, ollieing the little rail, maintaining my 100% streak of boardslides down the little rail. My flatground wasn’t that great. Dave’s line with the switch wallie was nuts. We all skated the pole jam for a bit. Kevin switch no comply pole jam was nuts. I got one sketchy no comply pole jam. Sean thinks regular pole jams are easier than no comply ones. Dave was trying them switch too. After that we tried the downhill ride on grind. Kevin, Dave and Sean did it easy. 20 minutes later I did it and it was quite fun. Then we bounced.
(setup null rabethica 8.5 deck, venture 5.8 black icon trucks, venom 88a bushings bones v1 stf 51mm wheels, new balance numeric 255 cream/gum size 12, footprint gamechanger insoles)
(knee pain 2/10)