skate journal: dog park then redder curbs with the dudes (july 20, 2019)
After lots of planning that changed Rob, Kevin and I ended up at the dog park as clouds rolled in. There was almost no one there and the clouds made it nice out. We did our warm up things then had a good session. Rob had a sick line of back 50 the lo-hi then nose manual shove the manny pad. The steez on the shove out was incredible. Kevin had worked up to the top stair on the lo-hi and did the craziest front smith to floater. Kevin has no problem with the taller ledges. He did something to front blunt the butter bench. I had gotten a couple crooks on the butter bench that felt alright, finally some back 50s on lo-hi, wallies, somewhat close to front nosegrind. Right before the rain rolled in I got a switch front nose shove that felt great. No tic tac finally. Then finished with an over the corner back 50 on the lo-hi that will hopefully come easier in the future.
After some food we ended up at redder curbs. Kevin and I played a warmup game of SKATE without many flippers that I lost badly while Rob cruised around to warm up. Kevin had some nice back 50s, but started feeling sick from the heat/food. Rob was trying front tail front shove out, some were close. He was doing really sick wallride nollies to start. I had been messing around with slappy front crook then nollie front tail to fakie when Fuzz showed up. Kevin wanted to film my line. I thought it would be easy, but somehow I forgot how to do nollie front tails. Maybe I can blame the big bulky shoes I was wearing, but probably not. I did get it once or twice. Once with a bad fakie flip after. Then we got more food and had some drinks at Deviant. Hanging with the boys was so fun even if I was the only one that couldn’t hop up from my knees.
(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 868 black/gum size 12, currex runpro medium arch insole )
(pain level 3/10)