skate journal: will’s ramp (dec 8, 2021)
On a warm, but breezy night I went to Will’s in Frederic to skate his ramp for the first time. Dave would join after awhile. It’s mellow. Very mellow compared to Rampy, smaller coping. Took me awhile to get used to it. I would get some basics when my king pin didn’t hang me up. Will quickly showed it’s his ramp. Dave warms up so cool. Below coping kickturns and fakie kickturns. As we got going Will instituted a ‘mandatory flatground’ when you ended up in the middle of the ramp. Will quickly got stationary varial flip, treflip, switch flip, front heel. Dang! Dave would get a few varial flips. I would get kickflip and whatever weird varial flip body varial treflip attempt I randomly do sometimes. I was mad I couldn’t get a treflip. Dave would manual the deck, fakie front pivots, lots of Dave ripping. I got a few front disasters, maybe one or two that slid, front 50s, axle stalls to fakie, fakie pivots, etc. Will had some blunt to rock fakie, fakie front smith to fakie, pivot and feeble fakies, etc. It was a really fun session.
(setup 8.25 nullosaur, jessup ultragrip, 5.2 venture lows bpmes med bushings, 1/16 riser, 51mm f4 101a spitfire classic shape 2 washers inside, new balance numeric 272 black size 12 half fp elite insoles)
(pain level 4/10)