skate journal: flagstone ledge fails (may 26, 2021)
On a warm evening I set out in front of the house to warm up briefly before going to campus. I had taken a couple days off after the 2nd vaccine shot kinda messed me up. I had setup an old 8.5″ deck with some Indys. It felt great initially until I got to a kickflip and remembered why I stopped skating Indys. So I biked to campus with my regular 8.25 and stopped at the flagstone ledge for a “warm up”. Instead I never got going and had one of those “why do I even try to skate?” sessions. My setup felt terrible. I hadn’t had a chance to put some larger wheels on. I had a couple slams on flatground kickflips, couldn’t ollie onto the ledge, couldn’t do other flippers. At one point I started to feel a little better doing crooks than b/s flip until I got a major shinner on the b/s flip. As it was getting dark I setup the camera for a crook so I could post and say something like “the only trick I have left” or something else dramatic and negative. I had done a few, but was trying to get a good one when I saw the spark. It was way brighter on my eyes than the video shows. It was cool. After that I sat for awhile and decided I would call it a day. I had gotten some other tricks like noseslide, noseslide fakie, boardslides, the slowest front 50 imaginable.
(setup 8.25 nullosaur, jessup pj ultragrip, venture 5.8 cast plate titanium hanger, venom 91a big bushing and venture little bushing, spitfire 50mm f4 99a classic shape, new balance numeric 212 salmon size 12 with nike sb zoom air insoles)
(pain level 4/10)