skate journal: fun at frederick in the icy snowy cold (dec 30, 2020)
On a cold night I drove out and met Dave at Frederick. The park had more snow and ice than we had thought. The manny pads weren’t an option. The bump to ledge/hump and curb areas were about it. And the two weird benches by the dumb sculpture. We basically had the park to ourselves except when shoveler Patrick showed up for awhile. We skated the hump and curb area the most. We skated for over a couple hours so it’s hard to remember all that went down. Warming up wasn’t as bad as you would think. Dave did a lot of curb stalls/transfers/grinds. All of which were made harder by limited run up. Front hurricane, boardslides, noseslides, nose stall reverts and the amazing back axle to rock to revert transfer. Wow. He also had some incredible lines that had switch shoves on the hump to quick wallrides. I mostly posed flip tricks and got used to my new trucks. Yes, new trucks again. This time Indy Mids. Had to try them, they felt great before the bushings totally froze up. I had a line of caveman grind then b/s flip the hip. I couldn’t get a regular kickflip over the hip. I posed hardflips for awhile on the little bank and got kind of close. I took too long to get a varial flip over the hip. I lost interest when Pat stole my trick. Then after he left I tried again and got a couple weird feeling ones. I tried a line of fakie flip on the little bank then f/s halfcab flip over the hip, but was really struggling. Dave’s lines were pretty amazing. It’s hard to describe the crazy curb transfers then switch shoves on the hump to quick wallrides and the smoothness. We ended on the weird sculpture benches. I was unable to switch noseslide either way. I guess the Indys might not be so good for ledges. But I had some alright crooks and a fun noseslide shove. Dave had a good line of front noseslide to fakie, fakie flip on the tiny bank, noseslide to fakie. Oh yeah then we hit the bank for a bit. Dave did some great fakie ollies. I did some weak ollies to fakie.
(setup 303 8.25 deck, jessup ultragrip, 144 indy mids, bones medium bushings, spitfire f4 99a classic shape, new balance numeric 212 black/pink size 11.5, footprint mid elite insoles)
(pain level 3/10)