skate journal: will’s ramp with dave round 2 (dec 15, 2021)
On an incredibly windy night I drove through broken traffic lights to end up in Frederick at Will’s. He immediately pointed out I was late. Ha. Will was already shredding. I guess Dave was “late” too. Warming up took a bit. The ‘mandatory flatground’ was initially front bigspin. None of us got it. My first couple felt close then I was not close at all. Will was close to a couple. Switch Dave almost did it switch. I spent a lot of time trying to do back 50s to fakie. I hadn’t done a grinding one in a long time. I would get one, but it wasn’t good. Was happy to get front 50 and disaster easily and kind of a weird cab rock which I haven’t done in a long time. Will got a bunch of front smiths, front tails, 5-0s, fakie stalls. Dave had good boardslides to fakie, rolled in again. Near the end his special mode was activated. He did switch front shove, back tail. Then would go on to do his first ever switch back shove as captured above. Will did a bunch of stationary treflips and motivated me to try some. I would get 1, maybe 2. It felt good, I’ve never done them stationary before. Seems to really help with form. My legs were not excited to jump though. Anyway, fun night. Oh yeah, I hucked a few bigflips on the transition at the end and was remotely close.
(setup null 8″ burnout stumpy, jessup pj ultragrip, venture 5.2 v-hollow highs bones medium bushings, boardycakes 49.99mm round ups 2 washers inside, new balance numeric 440 high b/w size 12)
(pain level 3/10)