skate journal: frederick park with dave and sean (march 25, 2021)
After struggling for motivation because of the shooting Dave got me going and I met him at Frederick. As I rolled through the nearly empty park I saw Dave do kickflip to fakie then sex change on the mellow bank. After a quick hello he also did varial flip to fakie! 3 tricks in a row, pretty amazing. My warm up was whatever. I didn’t skate bad, but never quite got a nose manual. Had some fun crooks, switch front nose slides. Dave was doing some rad ride on tailslides on the C ledge. He did that awesome dump truck 180 transfer. I attempted to line out the b/s flip over the hip with kickflip on the steep bank and noseslide the bump to ledge. But didn’t get the kickflip. The noseslide was fun though and the b/s flip felt really great. Sean showed up. We all chatted about the shooting and just how terrible it is. Dave was doing slappy front 50s to fakie. I was trying front heels on the mellow bank until I got one. Sean warmed up with kickflips to fakie. Then Dave left. I fizzled out. Sean did a sick line of the front 5-0 to 180 nose manual, front 50 up the escalator ledge, front nosegrind a hubba. Then I was like “hey Sean think you could ollie this?”. Well, yes, he can.
In some special news today marks one month with no real setup changes 🙂
(setup 8.25 null spanbauer deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.6 cast baseplate v-hollow hanger, bones medium little bushing ace big bushing, spitfire f4 52mm classic shape 99a, new balance numeric 212 cake size 12 with footprint mid elite insoles)
(pain level 4/10)