skate journal: after work dry at the worst spot ever (oct 31, 2019)

Posted in Skate Journal on November 1st, 2019 by corpo

Right after work on a balmy 44 degree day I went searching for dry. I went out towards the dog park with some hope that someone had shoveled. Nope. I found a building under construction that offered basically nothing but rough asphalt, big cracks and goose crap. And somehow I skated hard (notice I did not say I skated well). I started out with some nollie shoves, ollies up the curb, etc. Then took awhile to do a line of front 180 up the curb (close left), fakie flip on the sidewalk, switch 180 over a tiny snow pile. The fakie flip took awhile because the cracks on the sidewalk were horrendous. I had been doing some flippers on the rough asphalt and they were kind of working. Got b/s flip, treflip, halfcab flip. Then I tried a different line which was so hard. Kickflip up the curb, heelflip, back 180 the snow pile. It took awhile to get the kickflip up, the roughness and crack before it were terrible. I did eventually start getting up it with some good feeling kickflips. But I could not heelflip to save my life. Seriously almost lost it. Most bails I would do a switch flip after which felt pretty close at times. I eventually gave up on the line and did nollie shove then shove instead. It was a terrible line for a terrible spot. I left somewhat happy that I skated as hard as I did.

(setup 8.25 null nolan deck, mob grip, venture 5.2 awake lows, 51mm bones stf v2 wheels, 3 speed washers inside each axle, 88a doh dohs bushings, new balance numeric 306 b/w size 12, footprints gamechanger insoles)
(pain level 3/10)