skate journal: broomfield tuesday with sean, darin (aug 11, 2020)
Was at Broomfield by 7. Sean was there warming up. He had a few flippers going as I wandered around the crowded park aimlessly. So I decided a game of SKATE would get me going. I did alright considering my first kickflip was in the game. After a while we stalled on some harder tricks. I couldn’t do fakie bigflip and Sean was taking a bit to get fs halfcab heel. I managed a treflip then f/s halfcab flip, eventually a fakie bigflip. Sean would come through in the end and get me with back heel, f/s halfcab heel and a nollie back heel that took him a long time. Then we skated the black ledge. Sean was struggling a little with nosegrinds which was odd. I had some alright crooks and front 50s initially. Had a good feeling front 50 180 and then couldn’t get another front 50 to save my life. It made me mad. So I hucked a few switch flips and out of nowhere landed on one. I bailed stepped off, but still, it was a jolt of stoke. I got both feet on it and almost rode away! I would try several more throughout the night and a few more were really close, not quite as close though. Still, super exciting. I hit the blue pad with Darin for a while. He was trying fakie nosegrind switch shove, but didn’t get it. So I tried fakie 50 switch front shove and got pretty close. Sean joined us and did some really fast manuals. Then I was too tired to keep skating. Overall I didn’t skate that well, but landing on a switch flip felt awesome and encouraging. Oh yeah, Christian was there ripping. Good to see his fast powerful skating.
(setup 8.25 null archway deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.2 custom hollow AWAKE lows, bones hard bushings, 51mm spitfire 101a F4 classic shape, 3 washers inside each axle, new balance numeric 212 b/w/yellow size 12, nike sb zoom air insoles)
(pain level 3/10 some minor knee pain that was close to getting bad)