skate journal: brief southern hills then rocky mountain elem with dave and seattle will (dec 18, 2021)
On a nice day I got going after some morning chilling. I went to Southern Hills. I was on an 8.25. I really struggled to get going and tried to do a quick line before I would go meet the others in Longmont. I tried to do noseslide, kickflip, front 50 the lower step, crook. Never got all 3 in one line. Did manage to get all tricks, but never together.
Then to Rocky Mountain and I was beat. I had done one of those 7 minute HIIT workouts with India and it wore me out. I could hardly jump. I didn’t do much I was happy with. Got a couple basic flippers and some ledge basics that mostly involved not ollieing. Will mostly shredded the ledge. He did back tail before he did back 50. He also had casual front 50s, front tails to fakie and would get back tail shove. Dave had setup a little ramp to get up the curb. It was awesome. I had used it for a warmup line of slappy crooks to fakie then switch front nose the ledge. Dave used it to get tricks like pop shove and varial flip to fakie on a bank. He also graced us with some boardslides to fakie both ways. All in all a pretty fun session.
(setup null 8.25 glenosaur, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.6 cast plate hollow hanger, 51mm spitfire f4 101a classic shape, new balance numeric 440H b/w size 12)
(pain level 4/10 achilles wasn’t great)