skate journal: pre/post work fun on a skatepark dog park and flatground (sept 15, 2020)
On a warm morning I went to dog park feeling mentally and physically good for once. I was in the early warm up stages when Max Garson walked up to say hi. I was hyped. We chatted for a bit then he told me to boardslide the flat bar on the new manny pad. He didn’t think I’d get up there, but I got it 2nd try. Then he tried to teach me switch heels. There were a couple that were incredibly close. I was hyped. He took off. I played around for a bit then focused on kick front boards / treflips for awhile. I don’t know why I randomly thought of kick front boards on the way there, but I’m glad I did. I got one terrible treflip as a setup trick. The kick front board took probably 50 tries. I was hyped. Then I got bummed on my front 50s on the cinder block ledge again, got a fakie nosegrind, maybe some other stuff.
After work I went to the school kind of sore wanting to skate flatground. PJ had brought the heat and inspiration (fakie inward heel switch crook) and I wanted to get some flippers. I would get some. Quite a few actually. Kickflip, fakie flip, heelflip, halfcab flip, f/s halfcab flip, halfcab heel, f/s halfcab heel, varial flip, b/s flip, fakie bigflip. A questionable first try treflip that I didn’t want to clean up. Came close to nollie tre, switch b/s flip and back heel. It was a good time. Then I went inside and watched the Nuggets make history against the Clippers. What a great day.
(setup 8.38 null plant life deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.6 custom hollow baseplate v-hollow axles, stock bushings, 52mm bones stf 103a v1, new balance numeric 440 white size 11.5, no insoles)
(pain level 3/10)