skate journal: early dog park exhaustion turned fun (sep 7, 2020)
A little after 9am on a smokey morning I met Rob, Kevin, Dave, Eric. Jake and Nick were there. A couple others too. It was cool. I thought I would feel good as I had a good morning work out, but pretty quickly into the session I got really upset at a failed front 50 on the cinder block shuffle. I threw my board and yelled. Then sat down and realized I need to accept how tired I am and roll with it. I was fine after that and avoided jumping up stuff. Luckily a kicker and launch ramp session ensued after awhile. But before that, Kevin rattled off a million ledge tricks. Eric got a first try heelflip back 50. Rob snapped over wally world, slappy crooks. Dave boardslide 270 full metal jacket, slappy feeble transfer. I got a wallie then front shove off Lil’ Wedgy. Kevin did switch wallie then switch back 180 off lil’ wedgy. I got his back with wallie then kickflip. I was hyped the kickflip took under 5 tries. Kevin went on to do so many more tricks. Switch flip, nollie flip, halfcab, nollie 180, nollie bigspin. Rob had a steezy bean plant or two. The tiny little mountain ramp served up some fun too and was put in front of Wally World. I got an early grab over it. Kevin halfcab, nollie 180. Dave did a crazy tail scrape and then an even crazier gap to 50 transfer. I posed treflips for awhile then came close to b/s flip off the wedge before giving up. I’m sure I missed a lot, I was kind of in my own zone of exhaustion. Then I met Nullers at Brromfield and didn’t even get my board out I was so tired. A bunch of good manuals went down right after my phone overheated. Then we went to the brick hubba. Bo, Jack and Hayden did neat stuff. Then to Central Park in Stapleton. I took forever to get a cruddy noseslide on the dry concrete ledge thinking of the many awesome ones that Jason did. Sean ollied the bench. Then we ended up at the gap to wood bench spot and Hayden slayed it. After that I drove home so incredibly exhausted. I’m not sure why I was that tired. Oh well, it happens. Goodbye 90 degree weather and hello snow.
(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)