skate journal: solo early campus then incredibly frustrating garage flatground (dec 20, 2020)
Up pretty early I did some yoga then went to campus since the forecast said intense winds and it was already breezy. It ended up being really nice until about the time I left. I started right by the tunnel to the hill. I don’t normally do yoga right before skating and I felt a little weird, but not very sore. I messed around with some stalls on a step then ended up doing a fun little warm up line. Front tail, nollie front shove, nollie back shove, grind up the curb cut, noseslide the ledge, wallie nollie the bank to brick wall. I messed around with some kickflips and b/s flips, got noseslide to fakie. Then mostly just skated the ledge for awhile going slow because the downhill scares me. I got crooks, boardslide, switch front nose, took way to long to get halfcab noseslide then ended with a crooks to fakie. I went around the corner and made myself ollie up the rounded two stair a couple times, 180 off, then switch front nose, also a crook. Then I ended up at the stadium bank. Did pop shove to fakie, first trick kickflip to fakie and b/s kickflip. Then I went in on treflip. Aka the trick I kind of hate more than anything right now. It’s not that I don’t think they rule, it’s that I cannot do them. I tried probably 50 treflips to fakie and never got me feet on one. Not even close. It’s like it’s physically impossible for me to land them anymore. I left campus after this with mixed emotions.
After dinner I had nothing going on and was still mad I hadn’t landed a treflip. I changed to the forged baseplate in hopes it would make my board feel more flippy. It did. Warming up went pretty good I got kickflip and fakie flip right away then went in to the 5 way rotation (variations of kickflip, heelflip, nollie, switch, then a treflip). I got first try halfcab flip and b/s flip and had some of the best heelflips I’ve done in awhile. I was very close to nollie varial flip and setup the phone to maybe capture it. My rotation was fakie varial flip, halfcab heel, nollie varial flip, switch flip, treflip. For 30 minutes straight I did not land a single trick and I didn’t even get both feet on a treflip. It was so incredibly depressing. Maybe it’s time to go back down to 8″.
(setup 8.25 colfax deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.6 cast/forged baseplate v-hollow hanger, venom 88a bushings, spitfire 52mm f4 99a classic shape, new balance numeric 212 black/pink size 11.5, footprint mid elite insoles)
(pain level 3/10)