skate journal: solo flatground, valmont and basketball court with nullers (may 22, 2022)
Up kind of early I went to the side of the school and skated flatground before breakfast. As expected it did not go well, but I may have gotten a bit of confidence. I think I landed like 3 tricks in an hour. Fakie bigflip first try being the only remote highlight. I did huck a lot though. Maybe one of these years it will pay off.
Then I went to Valmont to meet a lot of people. Donnie and I started on a parking block propped onto the banked curb which was fun. I got slappy crooks, he did a bunch of front slappies. Then we hit dog park briefly until Nolan showed up and we went over to Valmont. It was fun cruising around, I got a little courage back. I hucked a lot of front halfcab heels on the bank and didn’t get any, but Sean did. Then I mostly filmed the dudes get buck. Nolan was shredding it so quickly. Donnie proved he’s skated the park the most. Hayden picked some ultra cool lines. Sean ollied the park. Joe’s ghetto bird on the hump was epic. Garrett was slamming a lot but that feeble then kickflip was hot.
Then we went to HH. Donnie slammed really hard on a back 50 to start and it got me scared of falling on my ribs so I just went over to the ledge area with most others. It looked like the dudes were having a good time in the park. Joe did like a million front crooks through the corner. Hayden almost got a cool noseslide shove the hard way through the corner. I did one tiny noseslide through it and bailed a bunch of flip tricks. Garrett had some amazing crooks. Then we went and had a couple drinks and celebrated radness.
(setup 8.25 null spanbauer, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.6 cast plate v-hollow hanger with royal bushings flat top washer, bones 52mm slims 99a stf, new balance numeric 272 black size 12 half 272/425 insoles)
(pain level 5/10 just a lot of pain)