skate journal: skating terrible at square house (dec 11, 2018)
Went to Square House right after work and a quick meal. I wasn’t really feeling like skating much and I really wasn’t wanting to skate a crowded park. But Donnie sent me a photo of no one being there so I went. It was just Donnie, Sean and Riley. David joined later, as did Ted. I had put some old bones wheels in thinking I would like them to flip with. But straight out of the gates I sucked. Bailed axle stalls on the ramp, couldn’t 50 the ledge, etc. Those 3 were skating the parking block on top of the bump to ledge. Well I guess Sean was mostly skating the ledge, Riley was too. Donnie was doing some ridiculous switch stuff from the lower qp onto the higher one. I had a crooks on the ledge I liked, a sketchy kickflip up the euro, a fun kicfklip to fakie on the mellow bank and ended it by taking a lot of tries to back 50 on the qp over the little qp. Riley had lines for days and could just improvise with tricks like switch heel up the euro. Sean had a sick line of front nosegrind the ledge, back 50 up the hubba then ollie into the wood bank thing. Donnie was in beast mode. It’s inspiring the way he slams and gets up. Still fun, but man I skated terribly.
(setup null 8.25 lazer deck, 5.8 venture black icon trucks, bones bushings (medium big bottom one, hard top one), no washers inside each axle, old bones 51mm v1 pj stf, new balance numeric 212 black/white size 11.5, stock insoles)
(pain level 2/10 but still felt disoriented)