skate journal: sick day dorking with dave (march 9, 2019)
After not skating all week because I was sick (and the weather sucked) I had to get out on a breezy sunny afternoon. I went to meet Dave at the valmont manny pads, but the sunny ones were wet, and the other side was in the shade. So I started dorking around across the street in the sun. I was just kind of dorking around as I felt really out it. I front 180’d up a curb to weird tail stall shove out on the ultra mini bank. Then I was trying to manual to axle stall. Dave showed up. We ended up skating the “Jack gap” for awhile. We did a lot of transfer stuff. Dave thought the back feeble transfer was easier, I thought it was easier frontside. Dave got a no comply from the curb site, I don’t think I did. I got lucky with an ollie from the curb side, but Dave took a hard slam hanging up on the last inch of grass. Ouch. Dave tried some Natas stalls on the pipe in the background. It looked so scary, luckily he got out of them safely. I did the transfer shove thing which was really fun. Dave did a rock shove transfer. Dave’s cab transfer was sick. Both of us bailed our flatground trick after. Then we went across to the shaded manual pad where Dave did manual then nose manual first try. It took me so long that Dave had left before I got it. I did at least get a 360 flip on my first real try. Dave was going for a mega line adding nollie back 180 and switch nose manual to the line. He did a switch nose manual to regular manual which was really sick. It felt good to skate again. I can’t wait to feel better.
(setup 8.38 null lazer deck, venture ftc 5.8s with forged baseplate, venom 88a bushings, bones stf v1 pj 53mm wheels with all washers on the outside, new balance numeric 379 tan size 12, stock insoles)
(pain level 6/10 sickness aches and some arthritis in my left ankle)