skate journal: frederick in the cold with a fun crew (nov 11, 2020)
On a cold night I went to Frederick around 7. There weren’t a whole lot of people when I arrived and it would thin out quickly. But to my surprise Skelly was there! I haven’t seen him in forever and it was great seeing him. Also Fuller, Big Mike and after a while Garrett and a surprise Derek Yale sighting! That was awesome too. Warming up wasn’t so easy in the cold. Dave was going in on the yellow curb. I was kind of all over initially. I really like how you can push at this park. I had some okay stuff somewhat quickly. Noseslide the bump to box, kickflip over the hump frontside, kickflip on the bank, b/s flip the upper hip. Mike had a cool boardslide around the yellow curb. Skelly with steezy ollies and halfcab board transfer. Dave did a first try slappy front crooks to fakie and then switch slappy crooks too! Wowsers. I got a weak slappy front crook. I was riding the 8.3, the bushings in it quickly froze making for a weird skate. I hucked tricks over the hump, but didn’t land much. At one point I was going near the qp and someone yelled Glen! I recognized the voice immediately, but didn’t see who it was and turned around and it was Derek! So stoked. Caught up with him then we fought off the cold by skating. He still has his quick light footed manual style and it was great to see. I would get a fun line for me. Front 180 into the bank by the yellow curb, switch front 180 fly out, noseslide the narrow ledge, finally ollie up the euro (can’t believe it took me so many tries because it was so easy when I finally committed). After that I didn’t really land much. Garrett made some hard tricks look really easy, but he didn’t get the front nose. Ha. Front smith on the box was sick. Garrett and I played a frozen game of SKATE to end it. I would only land front shove, kickflip, fakie flip, heel flip and fakie big flip. At least I got one letter on him with fakie bigflip. He get me with nollie flip, janoski flip, switch flip, halfcab flip and ended me with switch heel. I was close though! Fun night. I didn’t get as tech as I wanted, but I did at least do a few new things and it was a really fun crew.
(setup 8.38 null plant life deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.8 titanium hanger with cast baseplate, venom 90a bushings no boardside washer, 52mm bones stf 103a v1, new balance numeric 306 navy size 12, nike sb zoom air insoles)
(pain level 3/10)