skate journal: golden park manny pad area with jake on the way to bv (march 11, 2021)
Went to Golden after a stressful half day of work. I was meeting Jake and doing some skating then heading to BV. He was in the manny pad/ledge area and we ended up just skating it the whole time. We often had it all to ourselves. Jake had been there first and was already doing 50s and tailslides, but was struggling with crooks. I did some no pop noseslides. Got crooks then crooks to fakie, noseslide to fakie then switch front noseslide. I took forever to get a front 50. But after that I got a “Glen 50” aka 5-0, front 50 shove. I couldn’t quite get nose manual. Jake did first try manual. He also lined out rock ‘n rolls in the BIg O with front tail fakie. I posed a few halfcab heel noseslides that felt very doable. We started trying ollie up the ledge above the benches then trick down. Jake would ollie up every try. I got up it twice, but I must say I was happy to at all. I almost got the kickflip off first try. Second try I bailed as my feet were starting to hurt and the pointy toed Accels were hurting my feet. Jake would get nollie and no comply 180 off. The no comply 180 off was super solid. Then we played SKATE. Jake was at SKA on kickflip, heelflip and f/s halfcab flip then he got me with a few like switch back 180, f/s flip and something else. I put down a treflip in 3 tries! Jake went double or nothing and didn’t quite get it. That was it, time to drive up to BV.
(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 4/10)