skate journal: fun crew at Glenn Close (may 11, 2019)
On a nice day I met up with Rob then Sean, Matt, Dave, and eventually Fuzz across the street. Rob got in the groove quick with back 50s variations like shove out, 180 out, no comply out. Back 180 fakie 50 to a super cool late revert. Sean didn’t ollie the sign out of the curb cut, but he did have some solid grinds right away. Matt took a couple tries to get a treflip, but man that first one was textbook. I was skating alright, pretty sore though so not flipping the board as much as usual. Regular slappies are so fun. Dave waxed the curb a bunch as his warm up. Ha. He had some good long noseslides then even longer crooks and switch crook. So crazy how he can post up so well on them. Pretty sure he got shove out of both. Fuzz arrived, had an awkward slam pretty quick, but started ripping. He had gotten into this line of ollie into the curb cut, front 180 out of the next on the hard way then fakie nosegrind 180. He got it once, but went to clean it up and mid fakie roll away after a fakie nosegrind jib he focused his board. Doh. He must have been on a bad one and he bounced. The board focus was pretty impressive as he was still moving, but he slammed hard. We tried to imitate it for a bit and just posing it was scary. Back to it Rob was the first to leave. But not until he had done a bunch more stuff. Poppy ollies out of the curb cuts, bean plants, slappy crooks, kickflips out of the curb cut, a lot more I’m forgetting. Oh wait, actually Sean was the first to leave. He had done the line above as well as a fakie flip out of the curb cut to the parking lot that was so smooth. Matt was trying a line of treflip, nollie front 180, halfcab noseslide. It was funny though, Matt needs a taller ledge because he was struggling with curb tricks. He would get a lot of tricks though. Dave too, so many different tricks. Not sure if he got the front 5-0 shove though. In the end it was Dave, Matt and I. The wind was my excuse to not try a treflip out of the curb cut, but really it was all the knee pain I was in. I struggled to get the front shove out of the curb cut. I had a lot of fun slappies and got a few frontside ones. The only new trick I got there was a slappy to shuffle fakie into the bank. I tried so many of them, but only got one. I managed a couple front slappies at the end where I got on top. Dave had been lining out shoves and bigspins and switch slappy crooks. I know I’m missing a lot. It was a fun session.
(setup 8.75″ null valley deck, venture ftc 5.8s, doh dohs bushings (blue 88a barrel boardside one, yellow 92a roadside), spitfire f4 radials 52mm blue/yellow swirl wheels with 3 washers on the inside, new balance numeric 379 tan/gum size 12, fp 5mm insoles with heel pad)
(pain level 6/10 knee)