skate journal: solo fossil in the heat (july 19, 2019)
After an early day of work, a drive to MRKT, chilling with Eric, I went to Fossil Creek. I arrived to an empty park. I guess people don’t want to skate in upper 90s? It was hot for sure, but cooling off every minute so it didn’t bother me and there was no humidity. I started on the long curb up top. I was feeling the effects of a full work week on my body. Ugh. But I was able to get quite a few basics quickly and moved down to the bigger area. I would hit the long manny pad then ledge and the opposite coming back. It was fun, but I was struggling to ollie up the curb. I got an ollie up, noseslide to fakie, switch front 180 off. Got a 2nd try halfcab noseslide, was able to front 50 the taller part of the long ledge the first few tries (but would later struggle). Flip tricks were not going well as my shoes were so dead and thin. I did have halfcab flip and b/s flip, but didn’t commit to treflip. Another dude joined for awhile. He was working on noseslides and treflips. I tried to manual the manual pad. I kind of got one with a tiny tilt. I am terrible at manuals. Took a bit to get a posted up crooks, but man it felt so great. That ledge rules for crooks. A couple tries later I got so close to crooks shove. I took a break for a bit and tried some Adidas 3st.003s I had in the car. They lasted one noseslide attempt that almost rolled my ankle. I was going to leave, but the park was empty and I’m really stubborn. I needed to get at least one back 50, front tail on the curb. I got a front 50 shove on the lower part of the long ledge, front 5-0, and finally managed a terrible back 50. Next try I did an accidental back 5-0. That made me happy so I left exhausted and had a fun drive home with the windows open and music cranked.
(setup 8.5 Null Lazer deck, venture trucks 5.8 cast baseplate titanium hanger , venom 91a bushings with no bottom washer, bones 52mm stf sidecuts wheels, new balance numeric 212 maroon size 12, currex runpro medium arch insole )
(pain level 4/10)