skate journal: evergreen park on a saturday with jake, rob, kevin and a brief appearance from cass (june 12, 2021)
Rob picked me up Saturday morning and we rolled to Evergreen to meet Kevin and Jake and eventually Cass. It rules being able to carpool again. Chatting with friends is great, especially Rob. We showed up at the same time as Kevin and walked into the end of an old guy session that Jake had joined. He was already popping on the ledges and the steep qp. The warm up was difficult initially, but with so few people at the park the freedom to do whatever made it nice. Kevin was quick with the pop over the hip. We tried 180s the hard way over the hip, me taking several tries. Rob was back 50ing the curb and manualling right away. Things get blurry after that. Jake and I tried kickflips over the hip. I was having fun lining it out with slow front 50s on the little fence ledge and got a kickflip that felt pretty good. Jake got a sketchy one that Rob called him out to clean up and then landed it next try. Rob had a poppy halfcab over the hip and treated us to a lofty beanplant over it. Kevin was getting close to a line with nollie tre over the hip and asked me to film it for “3 tries”. He had the same results as me a few days ago. I filmed way too much, but he was so close every time it was hard to think he wouldn’t land it. I mixed in some front heel attempts, some of which were remotely close, most of which were not close at all. I tried a few tricks on the upper ledge and was happy how easy popping up the curb was, but mostly didn’t land any grinds. Same problem I’ve been having recently, getting onto the ledge fine and then falling off. Jake did front blunt the small qp then front pivot or front rock the steep qp. Rob was going in on a battle of manual to boardslide up the curb to ledge. He was so close so many times. I tried to get a rock ‘n roll on the steep qp, I’ve never done anything on it before. The line was switch noseslide 270 shove the fence ledge, front slash the little qp, rock. I would eventually get it and it felt rad. Rob was still battling the manual to boardslide so I kept going to and tried to finish on backside flip the hip. Rob got got his pretty quickly at that point and man it was good. Then I battled b/s flip for wayyyyy too long. Landed one cruddy one with hands down and kept struggling until everyone was leaving when I finally put down a slightly less terrible one. Then we hung in the shade at Casa Tequilas and had a fun time hanging out and decent food. Oh yeah, I forgot all about Cass. Ha. So he had arrived and was in the warm up process when he broke his truck. Doh. Somehow Kevin had a pair of Ventures in his bag so Cass swapped out and tried to get going again on different trucks (he skates Thunders). But a couple minutes later he blew out a bearing so he packed it in. Doh.
(setup 8.38 null jack night skate, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.8 cast plate titanium hanger, ace low barrel bushing and venom 91a small bushing, 52mm spitfire 99a f4 classic shape, new balance numeric b/w/blue 212 size 12 with nike sb zoom air insoles)
(pain level 4/10 quite a bit of soreness)