skate journal: golden with dave l, kevin and jack (may 30, 2020)
On a warm day Kevin, Dave L and I met in Golden at the univ. We just wanted something different. We started out on a set of long stairs. Kevin and Dave tried a bunch of 180s. I think Kevin may have gotten it all. Nollie front 180, halfcab, back 180, switch 180, switch back 180. I did a couple wallride nollies down a step. I was feeling pretty off. Next we ended up at this crazy manny pad. It was quick with a somewhat tall drop. I was feeling every bit of my cracked tail and had no confidence so I went back to the car to switch out my board. Kevin had already manualled it and switch ollied onto it and Dave ollied onto it when I left. When I got back Kevin said he had landed primo on a nose manual and was over it. We went to the center of the school which has a bunch of stairs. I warmed up on a 3 stair while Dave and Kevin went at a 4. Kevin had made it look so fun with a fun carve after. I got the 4 stair ollie and didn’t want to try any more than that. Dave would get it too. We ended up at a total Stubborns spot. A weird 2 stair with ride on ledge off it. I was skating really bad, but had a fun few runs. Pop shove, front nose jib a tall ledge, ride on back 50. Wallride nollie, front board, ollie the weird gap. Kevin went for a line swerving some tables, 50 a weird round bench then ride on back 5-0 front shove out. He wouldn’t get it. Jack showed up at this point. He did some good back 360s, wallrides. We got the boot from there and ended up at the steep bank that Nolan crook and 5-0d. I never got a wallride. Kevin splatted again, but got a good wallride. Jack had some really good wallrides. Then we went to the downhill ledge. There was a truck parked there, but he offered to move it so we had to skate it. Jack was on the back 50 immediately then went on to do several back tails that were all incredible. Dave, Kevin and I took some time to get anything or even try. It must have looked funny we would drop in like 10 feet from the ledge, roll a couple feel then stop unable to commit to the ledge. I would get a few noseslides and one to fakie. I was trying to slide them further but slammed into the rocks on top and messed up my hand enough that I had to stop skating. Kevin was going for crooks, took a horrendous slam and chilled for awhile. Then worked his way up to a good one to fakie. He grinded a long ways. Dave would get a couple front 50s and one with front 180 out. It was funny how distracted Dave would get. Any car in the distance, noise, etc. It was hilarious. We were beat after that. Street skating is hard, but rewarding.
(setup 8.5 curby 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 4/10)