skate journal: cold erie park with dave (march 10, 2021)
I arrived shortly after 7pm on a cool night at the Erie Street League park. There were a few others there and Dave. I wore my Accel slims with some new thin Footprint insoles and loved them. I randomly started noseslides on tall side of wedge to ledges. Took a bit to get bs flip on the bank. Dave did bigspin on the bank. Then I did kickflips to fakie and Dave did like 10 backside flips. Then we tried varial flips for Neil since he requested them. I was trying them to fakie and Dave was going backside for a bigflip. It took awhile. I got varial flip to fakie. It was incredibly fun and rewarding. Unfortunately my phone died right before I did it. Just another lesson to land tricks quicker. Dave would shortly get the bigflip on the bank. It was so rad, that’s his first one ever. 52 and learning new tricks is epic. I tried some lines to crook the ledge, had a couple flippers, but got stuck on treflip. Took me like 50 tries. Argh. I couldn’t front 50 the regular ledge either. Argh. Dave lined out fakie flips on the bank. I did a few kickflips to fakie on the high to low wedge but couldn’t get a halfcab flip on the bank after. Dave got a front 50 on the bank to ledge. He bounced and I made myself do a noseslide on the upper level of the tiny ledge then back 180 off. It didn’t come easy.
(setup 8.25 null spanbauer deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.6 v-hollow, bones medium bushings, spitfire f4 50mm classic shape 99a, es accel slim grey size 12, footprint 3.5 kingfoam insoles)
(pain level 3/10)