skate journal: fun time at saul’s on a windy day (may 4, 2020)
After a super busy day of work I chilled briefly then went over to Saul’s and skated with Saul, Jake and Dave L. It was a really fun session. Jake gets the award for most tricks landed. He had lots of runs with different tricks in them. I liked the backside beanplants over the hip, that was his new trick of the day. He had front feebs on the brick, lots of casual back 50s, frontside ollies over the hip, front 5-0s in the deep, pivot fakie, fakie front smith fakie, a lot more. Dave carved fast, lined out some slashes and wasn’t afraid of the big boy coping. Saul had a few of his patented quick carve grind runs, came close to some grab to back tail and slammed hard on a back lip attempt. I bailed a lot of axle stalls, but would eventually piece some carve grinds with front disaster, kickflip poses and eventually a front smith stall on the brick. jake owes me a cider for that one. Maybe some year we’ll be able to go out to a bar again.
(setup 8.25 null curby deck, venture 5.2 awake low trucks custom hollow cast baseplate, doh dohs 88a boardside bushing no washer minilogo 94a roadside with flat washer, 51mm bones stf v1 wheels with 3 speed washers on the inside, new balance numeric 288s white/gum size 11.5, no insoles)
(pain level 2/10)