skate journal: rhino arting with cass and kevin (jan 22, 2022)

After a cold night with a hard frost I picked up Kevin and we went to the Rhino art park. Cass would show after a bit. Kevin was already shredding. We hit the bench/long rail area. Kevin would get back 180 then switch front nose. I got nose stall fakie then switch front nose. Kevin boardslid the end of the rail and almost manualled the downhill ledge. Cass got fakie ollie into the pad but didn’t ride out the whole way. Then we ended up at the stage ledge. I was not feeling good on my board at all. Cass and Kevin front 50’d easy. Cass had a nice front noseslide shove, front nose 270. Kevin rattled off a bunch like back tail, crooks, nollie front tail and more. I would eventually get a couple accidental 5-0s, front 50, crooks, crooks fakie, switch front nose, switch noseslide 270 shove and almost crooks shove. Then we found the escalator grated ledge. It was really fun to skate. It would slow down quite a bit when you were grinding. Kevin had back 5-0s, front 50 back 180 followed by switch flip. Cass did some 50s and was kind of over it. I was trying to do front 50 shove, but a lady came out and asked us to leave since she was about to do a zoom call. So all I got was the sketchy one. Fun day with the bros.

(setup 8.25 null vhs, jessup pj ultragrip, venture 5.6 v-hollow royal bushings flat top washer no big washer, 52mm spitfire f4 99a classic, new balance numeric 288S grey size 11.5 with thin 440 insole)
(pain level 3/10)