skate journal: frederick with a fun old guy crew (april 4, 2022)
On a super nice night I bolted to Frederick after an early dinner. I had put larger wheels on and would go on to completely hate the change as well as every aspect of my setup and skating. Ugh. I can’t win. It started when I almost fell pushing entering the park. Anyway most of us warmed up on the little mellow bank. The crew was Skelly, Mike, Rob, Dave, Squeeks, Will and more. I guess a couple things I did that were fun were a line of slappy the double bank to curb then a little nollie bigspin over the hump and I think I ollied up onto the tall pad after that. I couldn’t get a halfcab flip or treflip on the bank. Squeeks was shredding. Front boards everywhere, lipslides, front tails, fast and lots of energy. Mike had some good slappies, wallies, got a little halfcab noseslide at the end, shredded the mini bowl. Will almost had front heel the bank, front 50d the little benches. Rob had some good slappies, boardslide transfer the ledge to pad, I think manuals on it too. Dave had some good slappies, switch front tail the hip, tried to varial flip the weird hip, ended with a really good front slash in the bowl. It was good seeing Skelly again. Saw him popping around, some good front 50s the little pad.
(setup null smoke valley 8.3, jessup ultragrip, royal 149 lights, 52mm spitfire f4 99a radial slim, 288S grey size 11.5 440 insoles)
(pain 5/10)