skate journal: douglass working with luzius (may 29, 2020)
On a bright sunny day I met Dave L around 11 at Douglass. Dave was already back and front 50’ing the ledges. My warmup went alright. I got a crooks, ollied onto the ledge first try, had some noseslides. I started playing with my dream line there. Slappy up the curb, flatground, noseslide 270 shove. I did a few no comply 180s then halfcab flips as the flatground. Then I switched to heelflip which worked until Dave started filming. Ha. Dave filmed me flail for quite awhile, then I gave up and filmed him. He struggled with his line too, but then after a break started trying another line and I filmed that. He did it like 10 times, the last one being perfect. Drop down manual to ollie up the curb, boardslide, back 180, switch boardslide. So sick. After another break we gave my line another try. I had switch to no comply backside shove and for the most part that trick worked. I tried for like 2 hours. I got my feet on a couple of the 270 shoves, but never rode away. I’m 0-2 trying lines there. Argh. It was fun trying to hard though and my body felt good. Oh, I cracked the board really bad on a heelflip earlier which is partly why I switched tricks. Anyway, thanks for filming for so long Dave, what a battle.
(setup 8.5 nolan null deck, ultra grip, venture 5.8 custom hollow cast baseplate titanium hangers, stock purple bushing bones top washer, 52mm spitfire green/yellow swirl classic 99a F4, new balance numeric 913 westgates b/w size 12, no insoles)
(pain level 2/10)