skate journal: dog park early and then jack’s spot in the heat (aug 3, 2019)
Kevin and I showed up with Christmas completes and had someone take a photo of us. We were thinking it would be funny to just leave after that. Ha. Kevin had some Venture lows instead of his normal thunders. I sized down to 8.3 with the new venture 8.25 trucks. I had huge new wheels. 53mm SML wheels. I was super hyped to support that company, but should have gotten smaller wheels as I really struggled for awhile. Kevin on the other hand was totally shredding rattling off ledge tricks. Nosegrinds, back smith, 5-0s. Carleigh showed up and pretty quickly joined Kevin on the bump to barrier. He did different tricks until she landed the boardslide. The nosegrind was sick. Carleigh did the boardslide pretty quick. There was almost no one skating so we told Rob to come back. He did. Rad. Of course the crowds had reformed unfortunately. The only thing I did that I was hyped on was the line Kevin filmed. I did it a couple times before filming. Way better of course (Just joking, but since there is no footage in my head it was better). Ollie the flat bar (hyped that this seemed easier on the smaller setup), wallie the barrier, nollie back tail the small narrow ledge, crook the black ledge. Carleigh and Rob jumped on similar lines. Rob with the ollie then front 180 over the barrier. Rob gots pop. But it’s funny because he can’t wallie it. Carleigh did ollie, wallie, front 50.
Later on we met up with Jack at his wood spot. It was so hot. That spot is so hard. Well, not for Jack and Kevin. They were ollieing up the weird corner like it was nothing. Both doing manuals. I think jack ollied the big two out of manual. Kevin did manual drop down to quick back 180. Kevin ollied the flat gap easily. Jack did a bunch of tricks over it. One of the steeziest backside bigspins I’ve ever seen, backside flip, impossible some more I’m forgetting. Carleigh and I were struggling to get up the corner ledge. It was frustrating. I was posing ollies over the flat gap. I eventually got the ollie up the ledge. Did a boneless down a level, then somehow made it over the flat gap. I say ‘somehow’ because what I did was not technically an ollie. It was some weird awkward momentum that got me over the gap. It stoked me out regardless. It also showed Carleigh that if she actually ollied she could do the gap. She tried that while I tried another line to clean up the ollie. I tried ollie up the ledge, kickflip on the narrow ledge, ollie the gap. I got it and ended it with a back 180 off. It felt awesome. Carleigh got the ollie too. Jack did a rad quick foot line. Ollie up, gap ollie, half impossible. Wow. It inspired Kevin to switch flip the gap. Unfortunately an hour and a half later he gave up after landing on several. Doh. Fun long day of skating though. I like my new setup so far.
(setup 8.38 null event horizon deck, venture 5.6 trucks, doh doh bushings (88a boardside, 92a roadside), 53mm sml og wide wheels, 3 bearings inside each axle, mob grip, new balance numeric 533v2 pj grey size 13, currex run pro insoles)