skate journal: exhausted rocky mtn session with the daves and rob (april 17, 2021)
On a somewhat cool day I met Dave F, Dave L and Rob at Rocky Mountain Elem. I had been called for work early that morning and didn’t get much of any sleep. I was the last one there. Since my 288S had finally bit the dust I was in some 22s I had gotten recently. I put some Lakai insoles and they felt good. Right near the start Rob did a no comply 5-0 on the curb to get things firing. L was doing his casual ripping with some shoves, back 50s, manuals. F was doing boardslides to fakie, front noseslides, kickflips, sex changes. Somehow I started off landing almost every flip trick I tried. Kickflip, fakie flip, halfcab flip, heelflip, f/s halfcab flip, b/s flip. But things would come crashing to a halt pretty quickly trying front 50s as the exhaustion kicked in and my right knee really started hurting. Argh. Fuller went in on his incredible b/s pivot to switch crook down the bank median. He did one so good. Rob did back shove 50 on the curb, a bunch of no comply 5-0s, back 180s up the curb to cab kickturn on the bank, bigspin front nose. I would get a couple of the worlds slowest front 50s, one was followed by a kickflip off the curb, both were eventually followed by treflip fails. I did a line I was happy about, back 50 the curb, kickflip up the curb, decent crook the ledge (then flail a treflip of course). I tried front smith grinds, but I think all I landed was a f/s pivot. Still felt cool. F filmed L trying a line with a rock ride, some shoves, then back tail. He did it really good. This was when I went to leave which lead to chatting for awhile. I took a good two hour nap when I got home. And man my right knee was hurting.
(setup 8.5 null jack pro deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.8 cast baseplate titanium hanger no big washer, 53mm spitfire f4 99a conical full red/blue swirl, new balance numeric 22 maroon size 12, lakai carrol insoles)
(pain level 5/10)