skate journal: solo boulder spots lazy afternoon (march 13, 2022)
After going out for breakfast and hanging with the family for a while I eventually made it out to skate. I went by the new spot near my house that would be oh so much more fun if it hadn’t been knobbed. I warmed up briefly, had some great feeling kickflips. Then tried a line of halfcab flip on flat then ollie the lower of the gaps. The knobs are really close together making ollies onto the ledge hard, luckily you can just ride on at one point. I had all these ideas for things to try, but it wasn’t as fun as I had thought and there were kids playing hide and seek and their parents (younger than me) kept looking at me weird. The curve into the lower gap was hard. I would get it, and also did it with a fakie bigflip to start. But none of the ollies were good. I made myself commit to the larger gap and it was depressing how scary and hard it was for me. I never got a clean landing. The runway is only one push and the roll away is only about 6 feet long. Oh well.
Then I went to the flagstone bench where I started to feel pretty tired and lazy. I had some okay crooks, but really struggled. Couldn’t ollie onto it or front 50. The spot is really tough to skate. Rough brushed concrete, large cracks and it’s narrow. The dork trick was kind of fun.
Then I went down to the next school and made myself do 10 flip tricks. The basketball court was smooth, but not level and the imperfections messed with me. Almost all of the tricks I did were terrible. I got kickflip, fakie flip, halfcab flip, f/s halfcab flip, fakie bigflip, heelflip (the only trick I liked and it’s been hard lately), f/s halfcab heel, absolutely terrible varial flip, backside flip and fakie heelflip. Not all days can be as fun as yesterday.
(8.25 null spanbauer, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.2 lows bones medium bushings, spitfire 51mm 101a classic shape with 2 washers inside, new balance numeric 288S b/w size 11.5 440 insoles)
(pain level 4/10)