skate journal: tired fun with dave at a new ledge spot (june 9, 2020)
Went to meet Dave at this ledge around 7. I arrived first and started at the nearby bank. I slammed on a rock on my first roll up, did a few nollie/fakie shoves and Dave showed. We went right to the ledge. Dave slammed on a rock right away. Dang the streets was trying to take us out. Warming up was not easy, but I was on a smaller board and determined to start my flip trick resurgence. It actually went pretty well as I did tricks after warm up tricks like noseslide (kickflip after ), noseslide to fakie (fakie flip after), switch front nose (halfcab flip), crooks (almost heelflip). I didn’t really get any more flippers although I was close to treflip. The ledge is taller than it looks, the manny pad way harder to hit than it looks. Dave had put some wood on the stairs as a way to get speed for the manny pad. He was doing lines from the ledge, turn on the stairs, up the manny pad, then the ledge again. He had a full pull or two. I think switch noseslide 270 shove, frontside kickturn the stairs, ollie up, nollie off, crooks to fakie the ledge. Bangin! He also had one with a front 180 off and halfcab noseslide. He did some solid front 50s and front 50 180 too. My ledge game was okay for me although lots of tricks were done with very little speed as I was so tired for some reason. I was happy to get a few back 50s and was somewhat close to shove out. I came remotely close to manual, close to kickflip off. My legs were done when it started to get dark and I struggled with halfcab noseslides. Dave did a bunch of really fast noseslides to end it. Fun times, would be more fun with more energy.
(setup 8.3 null collage deck, venture 5.6 v-hollows, 3 speed washers on the inside of each axle, 53mm spitfire classics blue/orange, new balance numeric 306 foy blue size 12, nike zoom air insoles)
(pain level 4/10)