skate journal: frederick with saul, garrett, mike (march 2, 2022)
After debating a lazy night I picked up Saul and we rolled to Frederick where we met Mike and Garrett. There was almost no one when we arrived. We started in the little bowl which I had only skated once before and this time it was actually fun. I would have some fun carve lines then ended with a run that had axle stall and rock ‘n roll in the shallow. I was hyped on that. Mike had some good lines with front slashes and lots of backside carve grinds. Saul hit coping on basically every wall. Then we went down to the main area. We mostly skated the curb area for awhile or did laps around. Kinda hard seeing what others did. Saul got a couple slappies, had a good bail, went back up to the bowls for most of the night. Mike had some good slappies, wallrides, wallies. Garrett was doing super fast switch manuals, tricks over the pyramid ledge, super good slappies, b/s flips the big hip every try. I skated okay, but nothing special. Was happy to get a 2nd try ollie up the tall pad, halfcab noseslide, crooks, but couldn’t get nose manual or backside flip over the hip. The whole time we were there this dude was trying a long run ending with kickflip boardslide. he never got it, but he did end up getting all the tricks. The kf boardslide was sick.
(setup 8.5 null smoke valley, jessup pj ultragrip, venture 5.8 ti axle royal bushings, spitfire 52mm f4 99a classic shape, new balance numeric 288S grey size 11.5 440 insoles)
(pain level 3/10)