skate journal: Glenn Close with a fun crew (sept 4, 2020)
After work I chilled a minute then rolled across the street for an old guy friday curbs session. I was the first one there. I did a few warm ups, some fun slappies, 180s, etc. Rob and Dave showed at the same time. Jake drove there ha ha. Saul a little later then Dave L. Rad crew. I skated pretty good for me. I did a lot of lines starting with front shove or kickflip off the curb. First one was front shove, slappy front crook, kickflip off the curb cut to parking lot. I couldn’t do it up the cut, but off worked. I tried kickflip off, nollie front tail or slappy front feeble then b/s flip off the curb cut, but never got the b/s flip. I couldn’t get a f/s halfcab heel. I got a really bad/slow fakie bigspin off the curb. Near the end I hucked a front heel, it felt close so I hucked another and landed it! Not sure if I’ve ever done that trick before, but it felt great even though I had some good heel touch. I got kind of close to switch slappy front crooks. Rob ripped. Slappy crooks, back 50s, back 5-0s, back 180s, bean plants, close to no comply to manual. Saul had some nice slappies on the raw curbs, slappies over the death box, feeble on the downhill two sides section, front slappies, ripping. Dave L mostly skated the upper section and was trying to piece together switch front shove, fakie bigspin then nollie lip the two sided section. Dave F gives Creager a run for the money on slappy crooks, definitely takes the cake with switch crooks. A really good sex change, switch ollies up the curb, cab off and some switch back 180 5-0s!!!! Wow. Jake lined out a kickflilp out of the curb cut with f/s halfcab into a curb cut, slappy crooks then the kickflip. Also slappy blunt, front slappies, slappy crooks and told me he would never get another letter on a heelflip. Mark his words, Sept 4 2020 “I will not get another letter on heelflips” ha ha.
(setup 8.38 null plant life deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.8 92 custom hollow baseplate, stock bushings, 54mm spitfire f4 99a radials red/yellow swirl, new balance numeric 306 foy b/w size 12, thin 533 insoles)
(pain level 4/10)