skate journal: dog park morning with dave l, kevin, cass (june 28, 2020)
On a hot morning I got to dog park around 9:30. I had the park all to myself for awhile. Kevin and Dave L would show up shortly after 10. I had worked out my legs pretty hard already in the morning so they were working, but sore. I was happy to get a warm up run of front 50 a cinder block ledge, noseslide to fakie the next one, fakie flip. Was also trying a line of back 50 the weird black pad, crooks the top of the two step, manual the regular black box. Never quite got it. I managed a bad 270 flip to make the minimum. Kevin showed and was going through his tricks so quickly. Dave L showed and was popping over things like it was nothing. At one point I randomly saw a line to ollie the cinder block ledge and went for it first try. I had never cleanly ollied one before. I snapped right over it, put a hand down, but man it felt rad. I kind of wanted to leave after that since I was so happy for the moment. But of course we kept skating. Kevin was rattling off so many ledge tricks. I got close a line of halfcab noseslide to fakie then fakie nosegrind. Cass finally showed right when we played a game of SKATE. Since he wasn’t warmed up at all he was the first one out. I was the second. I did get a few tricks at least. I missed the switch flip/nollie flip Kevin combo. Luzius didn’t though, he killed it, also a first try 360 flip. I got really close on mine. There was more skating after that, but I don’t remember much. Kevin was denied on the switch 5-0 shove again. I didn’t get the Joe Hamilton, but wallies over the little barrier are so fun. I really need a new board, I hope those Jack pro boards show up in 8.3 soon!
(setup 8.3 null curby deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.8 cast baseplate titanium hanger, bones medium bushings, spitfire f4 101a 51mm radial slims, new balance numeric 288s navy, no insoles)
(pain level 3/10)