skate journal: street skating solo fun (dec 10, 2018)
After getting hyped on some Vics Market videos at Jack’s I felt like doing some real street skating for once. Just pull up to an area of town and skate. I had to bring boards to Fedex so I just went there and skated around. I was immediately stoked to see the very well lit alley behind the old Whole Foods being totally skateable now. I played around for awhile warming up then settled on some lines to get going. I would do a variation of a side rock, then ollie a little square cement chunk and then try to tailslide a little yellow curb. I had setup a new board, 8.25. It felt small, but fine. I had the City Cups going again and they felt tine too. I took a long time to get a kickflip to fakie, the approach was hard. I tried to back tail the tiny yellow curb, but that didn’t work. Pop shove to fakie was fun too. That area is cool. Then I rolled around for awhile and ended up at the weird wood bench in the photo. There is a slight bank up to it. i did a nose stall to fakie then took a very long time to get a front axle stall. But it felt good when I did it. I had tried a few flippers, but didn’t land much. My board/shoes felt weird for that. But yeah, super fun night, felt great to really street skate. I need to do this more.
(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, spitfire f4 radial blue/yellow swirl 52mm 99a wheels, adidas city cup size 11, stock insoles)
(pain level 2/10)