skate journal: campus flatground and a little ledge action before work and a little flat with lows later on (aug 4, 2020)
Another day wearing glasses and trying to avoid sunlight I went to campus before work for some flatground. I went to the flagstone ledge area and mostly hid in the covered area. I downloaded some random skate dice app to use as a warm up. It did some basic tricks to start with like nollie back 180, switch shove, helipop, etc. It was fun. Then I tried halfcab flips for way too long before getting a couple really slow ones. I ollied onto the ledge after and came remotely close to dropping into cali grind on the sidewalk. Took a while for heelflips too. I hucked a lot of nollie/switch flips and were close to both. Committed, but didn’t get my feet on. Couldn’t get a treflip which is always depressing. I think the tighter bushings I’ve been rocking hurt treflips. Man did I even land anything else? I did a crooks or two, noseslides. Ended trying kickflip then front 50. I got into a couple front 50s, but never grinded and landed one. Argh. I wasn’t too depressed when I left skating, but upon writing this I am. I really hated how my kickflips felt. I wasn’t popping the tail.
So after work I tried low trucks again. And I loved it. I warmed up with some slappies in between some longboarders then skated some flat on the side of the school. I had some new wheels and bearings too. Spits 51mm. They felt great. My kickflips felt sooo much better. I was 3-3 on heelflips at one point too. I had a few initial tricks that felt good, then kinda went downhill. I mostly hucked all kinds of tricks without really sticking to or landing much. It was fun though.
(setup 1 8.25 null archway deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.2 custom hollow cast baseplate v-hollow hanger then venture 5.2 lows, bones hard bushings, bones stf v1 51mm 103a, new balance numeric 212 b/w/yellow size 12, nb abzord insoles)
(pain level 3/10)