skate journal: dog park with the best crew (june 25, 2019)
After work I went to the new Dog Park on Steroids. I pulled into the parking lot and saw ~30 people skating. WHOA! The secret it out! It’s hard to describe the initial feelings I had rolling into the crowded spot that used to be our little secret. But the obstacles are awesome and everyone was pretty cool and it ended up being awesome. Nate was coming so everyone in the crew wanted to see him so our crew grew huge. Saul, Eric, Rob, Fuzz (very briefly), Matt, Kevin, Jake, Jack, Carleigh, Ed and of course Nate! Wow. I’m sure you can imagine how hard it would be to remember what everyone did. Especially since I’ve skated there 2 more times since. I started off super slow and cautious. Eric was ripping out of the gates. Rob went through a similar initial bum out, but ended up shredding and loving it. Street Ed was rad to see. He has a clean ollie and 50s. Saul was on the slappys. I didn’t see much and he was the first to go. Matt went off! All the stock tricks on ledges done with such good style. Kickflip and nollie shove over the little wallie, also front noseblunt the butter bench! Dude. Kevin them stock ledge moves too. Front blunt the butter bench, switch ollie the wallie thing, nollie flips galore. Rob snapped over the wallie thing and got wallie over it too, front board the tall bench, boardslides, halfcab boardslides, halfcab flips. I didn’t skate well, but was happy with some of the things I did. Front 50 the ledge, wallie the wallie thing, crooks the low part of the picnic table, halfcab noseslides, crooks the metal bench. Jake went off too. A million ollies onto the picnic table, a bunch of tricks on the ledge. Jack did a back 270 to front tail on the butter bench. Unreal. He also did nollie 180 crooks, bluntslide to front board the kinked rail and ended things with a totally f’d up kickflip hot dog that I’ll post soon. I didn’t see much of Carleigh, but she told me she tried and did a manual! Ha ha. Eric also told me he did a wallie front 180 over the wallie thing. And I believe him because he was doing regular wallies like it was nothing. Lots of heelflips too, crooks the butter bench. This place totally rules. Nate and I ended with no comply flips over the parking block. What a fun crew to roll with. Sorry if I forgot someone or any tricks you did. Love you all.
(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, nike zoom air insoles)
(pain level 5/10 in the knees)