skate journal: parking garages and tight trucks with jake (dec 16, 2020)
Felt like trying tighter trucks on my 8.25 setup so I put some stock venture bushings in with both washers. I met Jake at the dark and dreary Steelyards garage. There was an older dude drinking beers, smoking up and riding a bmx bike around the garage all fast. It was awesome. The darkness of the garage quickly got to Jake and I. Also, I quickly remembered how much I hate tight trucks. We struggled to do a few things we can normally do right away then decided to leave and check out something else. We ended up at redder curbs which wasn’t much colder even though it’s open. Jake had a little line ollieing the median then slappy the curb. I flailed around hating tight trucks and did some front 50s, slappy crooks, 180s over the parking block. I couldn’t get b/s flip over the micro hip. Jake learned dump truck transfers over the parking block. I would get one too that took way too long. Then we played a really fun game of SKATE transfers over the parking block. It started with me doing a terrible ollie over it. Ha. We went quite a long time before any letters were handed out. I can’t remember all that we did. Some fun ones I did were front axle to fakie, front feeble nollie shove, blunt shove, we both got first try dump trucks, nosepick transfer was a battle for both of us but I got it. Jake did nollie shove rock transfer, f/s cab rock transfer which I somehow got too, a beanplant 360 hand shove which was incredibly fun, he almost got fakie shove rock transfer. Somehow he accumulated SKAT while I had SK and I one it with a back 50 to fakie transfer. Fun game, I needed a “dork” session. I tried to kickflip it after the game, but didn’t have the commitment. Oh well, fun night. Tight trucks suck!
(setup 8.25 colfax deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.8 cast baseplate titanium hanger stock insoles, spitfire 52mm f4 99a classic shape, new balance numeric 212 black/pink size 11.5, footprint mid elite insoles)
(pain level 3/10)