skate journal: dog park with ed, rob, jake (april 1, 2021)
On a nice day I went to dog park and met Rob, Dave and Ed. Warming up was pretty brutal. Especially because lots of talking was going on which was rad, but not the best for skating. I started to feel the effects of a big board which I think was more because I was quite tired and sore. Boardslides were fun as always. I’ll start with Rob since he bounced first. He definitely got into demo mode with some long lines. I was impressed with decked boardslides on the tall bench, crooks the new bench, back 50 back 180 out, ollie over wallie world, fakie bigs and a lot more I’m forgetting. It was rad seeing Ed skating. His ollies have so much pop and he gets his back leg up all good. He had good manuals, boardslide to fakie several parking blocks, rad tweaks off the little mountain launch ramp. I didn’t skate very good, but also not terrible. I was happy to get a first try front 50 to front board on the cinder block ledge, front 50s on the black angle iron ledge, halfcab noseslides felt way better with the big board, some okay crooks and slappy crooks, f/s halfcab flip but couldn’t get heelflip, treflip or halfcab flip. Dave continued his recent destruction with back 5-0 back 180 out, front 50 180 and 5-0 the beam, switch crook and front crook the cinder block ledge, sex change, long slappy feebles and much more. As we were winding down local ripper Andrew showed up and put on a demo that was fun to watch. Franky grind!
(setup 8.75 null spanbauer night deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 6.1 with stock bushings no big washer, spitfire 53mm conical full f4 99a red/blue, new balance numeric 212 cake size 12, footprint elite mid insoles)
(pain level 3/10)