skate journal: broomfield park blah (jan 17, 2019)

Posted in Skate Journal on January 18th, 2019 by corpo

After an annoying long day at work, a nap, dinner I headed out to Broomfield park to meet Kevin on a decently warm night. We were playing on the blue ledge/quartapotty to start with. There were a bunch of bikers skating the sad ledge so we kept almost running into each other so that was annoying. Kevin was shredding. Switch nose manual, switch manual, nose manual (yes he went switch first), switch nosegrind 180, switch front 5-0. All while I didn’t land a nose manual. This would be the start of my frustrations. I did okay on the quartapotty and did my first front tail on transition in awhile, but for the most part I was just tired and useless. I came close to a nollie varial heel. That would have changed my mood. We tried 360 flips for awhile. Both of us coming close, but not riding away cleanly. He got a toe drag landing, I got a pro push landing. He was trying blunt to back 50 and almost died. I came close to kick back 50, I like how quickly the smaller setup flicked. I didn’t like how I couldn’t find the nose manual though. We moved to the black ledge area where we both realized we were tired. Kevin still did very fast back 5-0s, switch nosegrind 180 and took awhile to get front 50 back 180. I took awhile to get front 50 shove going slow. I had some crooks, but I think other then that the only thing I got was a tic tac’d 360 flip.

(setup old 8″ null, venture 5.2 v-hollow high trucks, 50mm bones stf, 3 speed washers on the inside of each axle to make it feel a little wider, bones medium bushings, lakai sheffield’s grey size 12, nb# insoles)
(pain level 3/10)