skate journal: friday fun with the crew (oct 26, 2018)
Had the day off work! Slept in a little then met Dave at Safeway. Rob and Fuzz were a little after us. Okay Fuzz was a lot after us. Anyway, both Dave an I had some loose goals of tricks. It was a bummer though as the asphalt had a layer of gunk/oil/moisture that would get on the griptape and make it slippery. So we had to push from weird angles to not push in it. Ugh. Kind of a bummer. That made warming up pretty tough, but we got it going. I started hucking kick 50s and a few tries in got one of the better ones I’ve done. So I set up hosercam to try with a shove out. Dave was struggling with nollie back tail, but doing sick front 50 no comply variations like 180 and shove. I got into a few kick 50s, got kinda close to shove out, then kinda started doing kick 5-0s instead and got close to shove out on a couple tries. It felt cool to try so hard. Rob had shown, but didn’t like the gunk and chilled and hyped the session. Near the end I gave up on the kickflip in and did a front 50 no comply fingerflip out which felt cool.
Fuzz was running late so we bailed to ambulance ditch. We were all sore and tired. It’s fun to roll into those banks though so it got us going soon. Rob was on the wallie nollie tip in lines with bean plants and one foots. Dave was back tailing the steeper side, front axle the mellower side, back 180 the hip. I was posing kickflips for awhile then started trying it to back tail. I didn’t slide it at all, but it was still fun. Fuzz showed and did pop shove to fakie twice on the same bank. So sick. He pushed fast and laid into back smith. Rob did a front big on the mellow bank and it got me wanting to skate the mellow bank too. I had some fun nollie bigspins then did a few weak fakie front bigs which felt weird and cool. Fuzz got a cool slide around to halfcab for Stubborns. Rob got a cool quick line. Dave ended it with a cab over the hip which was gnar.
(setup 8.5 null lazer deck, 5.8 venture black icon trucks, venom 88a bushings, 3 washers inside each axle, bones 51mm stf pj v1 wheels, lakai griffin vlk b/w size 11.5, footprint 5mm insoles)
(pain level 3/10)