skate journal: dog park before work, glenn close after (june 26, 2019)
On a somewhat cool morning I went to dog park before work. I am so floored by this spot. I want to skate there so much and hopefully progress a little on ledges again. Warming up seemed hard at first. I was wearing some gamechanger insoles in hopes that I would have less knee pain. They helped. I had the place to myself. I cruised around doing lots of basics and lines for awhile. It’s so fun. I got a few slow front 50s on the ledge, front 5-0 the narrow ledge, got a front 50 shove, a bunch of crooks on the table bench, ollies over the kinked rail. Couldn’t get 50 on the picnic bench or ollie the wallie thing.
After work I was eating/chilling/doing laundry when Dave texted to go to Glenn Close. He was there with Saul and Jake. Turns out it was Dave’s birthday! Happy Birthday Dave! It was a really fun session. Saul had done his first ever slappy crook and I saw him get another (unfortunately not on film though). Jake did slappy blunt to fakie (twice). Dave was doing incredibly long slappy crooks and noseslides. I got a slappy feeble first try then slappy front feeble a few tries later. I was so hyped! Hadn’t done the frontside one there before. Saul of course also did regular slappies on the raw curb. Dave had some good 180 lines. Back 180 into the curb cut, switch back 180 out, back 180 fakie 50. Slappy front crook to fakie, switch slappy crook shove!!!! We messed around with a few more things near the end like slappy back smiths, etc. Fun times, HBD D!
(setup 8.38″ null lazer deck, venture ftc 5.8s, doh dohs bushings (blue 88a barrel boardside one, yellow 92a roadside), bones stf v2 51mm wheels, new balance numeric 212 maroon size 12, footprint gamechanger insoles)
(pain level 4/10)