skate journal: boulder park curb fun with dave and skelly (feb 14, 2022)
On a nice day I met Dave at Boulder park after work. It was crowded. I took a few runs around the park and it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. I had made the dumb mistake of changing to an old 8.5 deck. I enjoyed it this day though. I had a fun little front nose 270 on the bank to ledge then met Dave in the parking lot where we started skating a really good slappy curb. I started with slappy crooks, Dave started with switch slappy crooks. We went on to do a few slappy variations. Dave had some good kickflips, cool alley oop back 180s off a curb, switch slappy crook shove, nollie back 5-0, backside slappy, slappy crooks to fakie and I think ended with a slappy front crook. I had some funny basic flippers that I landed, but with toe or heel drag. Slappy crooks, slappy front crook, fronstisde slappies, nollie 50 and 5-0, couldn’t get switch crooks like Dave. Skelly showed, we chatted some then went into the park as things were dying down since it was getting dark out. I landed nothing of note. Skelly had several good backside grinds over the bench. Dave grinded down the parking block and flowed in the rad Dave style we know and love.
(setup 8.5 null smoke valley, jessup pj ultragrip, venture 5.8 titanium thunder bushings, 51mm spitfire f4 101a classic shape, new balance numeric 288S white size 11.5 no insoles)
(pain level 3/10)