skate journal: flatground misery (june 6, 2020)
On a lazy day after a rain storm I went over to the side of the school to skate flatground. I was pretty unmotivated, but I thought it would kick in once I started moving around. I slammed on a no comply 180 right away and thought about going home then. But unfortunately I am too stubborn. I struggled to land a kickflip. And when I did I was really inconsistent with them. Too the point where I almost focused my very last board. The warm up run of kickflip, no comply 180, fakie flip took awhile. I survived the madness only to hit it again on halfcab flip. Just the day before I was 2/3 and they felt great. Nothing about my setup had changed. I was so angry. I can’t say I went on to land much. One horrible heelflip, halfcab flip followed by backside flip. Yikes, that’s it. I got somewhat close to treflip and nollie treflip. Hucked some front heels and switch front heel. But it was miserable not landing much. I had some fun doing back 180 over the manhole into the downhill section and doing switch front 180 after at least. This session really makes me question 8.5.
(setup 8.5 curby deck, ultra grip, venture 5.8 custom hollow cast baseplate titanium hangers, stock purple bushing bones top washer, 53mm spitfire classics blue/orange, new balance numeric 913 westgates b/w size 12, no insoles)
(pain level 3/10)