skate journal: bright day at douglass with a great crew (june 20, 2020)
On a sunny day I went to Douglass running late as always. Kevin and Rob were there. Yes, Rob was there! So stoked to see him again. Carleigh, Dave L and Bernie would join us. Rob started out on the cruiser setup cruising around getting the feel for being on the board again. Kevin was doing lots of flippers and crooks. I was trying more flippers than normal too. At one point did a line with slow backside flip, switch 180 up the curb, heelflip, noseslide. I was struggling to get into crooks. Actually, the ledges felt huge the whole time. I would only get noseslides, a little crook and ollie onto one. Dave L and Kevin popped over the little wall like it was nothing. Dave manualled a bench, had some front 50s, back 50 I think. Kevin had good back 50s, back tail, lots of wallies. I didn’t see Bernie hit the ledges much, but he had some good manuals and flippers. Carleigh had a lot of good kickflips. I guess I was kinda unaware of what else was going on as I was bumming pretty hard on my skating. Rob broke out the regular board and treated us to a patented Rob back 180. Also some ollies, no complies, etc. Kevin, Bernie and I got into a treflip battle. Kevin’s was switch, but we’ll just ignore that. Bernie got his first. Kevin landed on lots several switch tres, but never rode away. I couldn’t even get close to treflip and it was infuriating. I had made a goal of ‘a tre a day’ during my furlough. Kevin did a quick nollie tre and reminded me that I didn’t specify which tre. So I tried nollie tres for awhile and after about 15 tries landed a terrible one. It did make me feel decent though. Bernie and Kevin were the last men standing trying flippers. Back to back hardflips! Back heels, frontside flips. The dudes were ripping.
(setup 8.3 null curby deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.6 cast plate hollow axle, 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)