skate journal: reverse of the day before (june 3, 2020)
On a slightly cooler day I met Luzius at the Arapahoe bank/ledge spot around 11. I was equipped with pants and vulcs for a better flick on the fakie flip. We started with a game of SKATE that took awhile, but was a good warmup. Dave was ready to go and got me with like 3 tricks before I was ready to pop. Kickflip, pop shove and something else. We would bail a lot of tricks, I would eventually get fakie flip, halfcab flip, heelflip and something else so it was SKAT-SKAT. He won it on switch front 360 which on my second try felt much closer than I would have ever imagined. Then it was right to work after a couple warm up lines. It took me another hour and I was getting super depressed, not really enjoying skating. But then I started getting close to the fakie flip and out of nowhere landed a really bad one. Dave insisted I keep trying and a few tries later I got another one which felt worse, but was actually somehow was a little better. I chilled after that. Dave didn’t really feel like skating so we split.
A few hours later I met Jack and then Fuller at the yellow bank to curb frontage road spot again. I was not really feeling like skating. I got kinda close to lipsliding it again, had some funny nose jibs on the taller part. It was fun watching Jack destroy it with wallie 180, wallie boardslide transfer, wallie to switch crook, boardslide pop out, and a line of wallie, ollie into the bank, impossible off the curb. Dave had showed and was piecing together some rad lines so I filmed him and Jack. Dave did a Chico line line. Nollie back 180, switch front 180, lipslide, ollie onto the two stair then quick back 180 off. Then I filmed him back lip the two stair as jack did a million no comply flips over the 2 stair and then put down one to manual that was so perfect. What an amazing trick. Stoked those guys stacked some clips. Then we had a fun Null meeting later that night. I love those dudes.
(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 306 foys blue with thin adidas insoles then 913 westgates b/w size 12, no insoles)
(pain level 3/10)