skate journal: slappy lunch then broomfield with skelly, mike and garrett (nov 19, 2020)
Another beautiful day so I skipped out for a very short lunch break to get some slappies in. I hadn’t done a lot of exercises so I was kind of stiff. Slamming into the curbs helped to get the legs moving. I was on the 8.25 setup. It wasn’t the best slappy session, but still fun. Had some fun front and back slappies, took a bit to get front crook. Tried switch front 50s and got into a few, but didn’t land it. Got on switch slappy crook. Ended with a front slappy.
Then after dinner I met up with Mike and Skelly then Garrett at Broomfield park. It was pretty nice out and the park wasn’t very crowded. Warming up was tougher than I thought it would be. I had done lots of exercises. Skating earlier I had worn the 288s and for this I went back to the 306s. They hurt as the shoes and Nike insoles have gotten really thin. Anyway, Mike and Skelly were mostly hitting the blue wedge area. Skelly had a pretty good slam right away hanging up on the edge. Ouch. He would go on to get front shove to fakie also a quick ollie on then ollie off the side. Mike was slappying the bottom curb somehow even though it’s oververt. I was kind of all over. I 180’d up the black ledge which made me kind of happy. That was about the time Garrett showed up. He had a line pretty quickly that was amazing. Front 50 up the escalator ledge, back tail black ledge,front tail 270 shove the black ledge. Also treflip into the bank. I struggled with front 50s and it made me mad. I switched to my 8″ setup because I couldn’t get the halfcab flip on the bank. I still struggled with it, but would end up landing it. I did several of the switch noseslide shoves. I had some alright crooks on the 8″ setup, but not so much the 8.25. Mike had some good front noseslides on the black ledge. Skelly did some little front slashes on the brick qp, but they were really rad. I slammed boardsliding the little rail, but would go on to get it a few times. I got really close to a halfcab heel noseslide. Flip tricks weren’t going very well. I think mostly because my shoes were so thin I was afraid to commit. Which of course just hurts more. Justin was there ripping. As Garrett tried the manual combo I hucked flip tricks. Couldn’t get a treflip. Decent night, I tried hard. Fun crew.
(setup 8.25/8 nulls / ventures 288s/306s blah not worth all the details since I switch all the time)
(pain level 4/10)