skate journal: lots of early skating at dog park (aug 23, 2019)
Up super early on a Friday morning to meet Dave since he worked at 8. He got there by 7, I was there around 7:15. That’s early! There was another dude there briefly, but left before I had touched my tail to the ground. Dave slammed on a nollie back 180 when I got there. The warm up frustrations are hard sometimes. But he would get it together. I was really impressed with the over the corner back 50s he was doing. The shift around to back tail was sick. Right before filming he pretty much did the same line with a halfcab flip instead of just halfcab. I was unable to get on the step backside again. Argh. Dave left as I started my solo filming mission with no comply flip. Then it was slappy crook, wallie then backside tricks on the bench. I am so stoked to have learned halfcab noseslides. They don’t look as good as I had imagined in my head, but still way better than they did before I skated here on a regular basis. Also excited to finally learn halfcab noseslide to fakie. Oh yeah, I had put my old cracked 8.5″ deck on. It made kickflips hard. I was like 1-5 to start. Argh. I was super hyped on my frontside bench section though. I got up on the ledge pretty much every try. The front 50 shove only took two tries. I couldn’t do an intentional 5-0 though. Then I tried to ollie the ledge. Ugh. Maybe it was partly the smaller board lowering my confidence, maybe just the lack of sleep, maybe exhaustion from skating almost every morning, maybe the cracked tail, but I could not get it. I had some clean pops over it, but kept landing forward. Then whatever the heck happened above. I gave up at that point. Last thing I tried was halfcab noseslide 270s out. I knew they weren’t close. I was really trying to land on the front wheels first then pivot around, but I couldn’t do it. I went to work so hungry and tired, but yet pretty hyped on skating as hard as I did. Especially happy that I was able to get on the ledge frontside.
(setup 8.5 null lazer deck, venture trucks 5.8 cast baseplate titanium hanger , bones medium bushings, sml 53mm og wide wheels, new balance numeric 533v2 gray stock insoles)
(pain level 3/10 knees starting to hurt a little maybe from not wearing orthotics)