skate journal: weird gunbarrel spot with the daves (june 19, 2020)
After a busy last day of work for 3 weeks I met the Dave’s in Gunbarrel after some dinner. We got booted from the mellow bank immediately. The ledge area was supposedly covered in water/gravel. We ended up at the weird spot in the clip. It’s hard to describe it so I’m glad I got a clip of them. Warming up was not fun. We did a lot of the mellow bank to step action. You have to throw down just right and be ready for the curb coming up quick. Dave F did both back and front pivots to shove/body varials out. I got a front tail shove that took awhile. Dave L did back tail and back tail to back tail on the side of the step. Dave L was the first to pop over the step both ways, actually the only. I managed to ollie the little part into the bank, but it wasn’t easy. Dave F did some cool Chico like lines, bonk into the pad, front shove, front board transfer into the bank. Also switch bonk, fakie big, front disaster 180 into the bank. I did a few kickflips into the pad which were harder than I had hoped for. There isn’t much setup and going over the crack is weird. They felt good though. I didn’t get a treflip, but luckily it wasn’t the official start of my challenge since I still worked today. I took a long time to do a front tail on the side of the step into the steep bank. I didn’t make it passed the crack. Doh. Dave F did it pretty easily backside. He also slammed incredibly hard trying a pivot on the side of the step. Dave L was doing crazy ollies sideways onto the step and then into the bank. Then they both got into the fastplant groove. It took them like 20 tries to be happy with it. Ha ha. Fun night though considering how tired and cranky I was.
(setup 8.3 null curby deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.6 v-hollows, bones medium bushings, 3 washers inside each axle, spitfire f4 51mm radial slim 101a, new balance numeric foy 306 size 12 blue, nike sb zoom air insoles)
(pain level 3/10)