skate journal: valmont pain and some dog park before filming (oct 2, 2022)

On a cool misty morning I met up with Cass. Dog park was puddled out so we started at Valmont. Pretty early on it was drizzling and I made the dumb mistake of going through the pump track and died going sideways down a hump. It hurt so bad. It was hard to get going after that, especially after I kept getting ghost pop over the hip. Argh. Cass got a first try kickflip over the hip. I didn’t. Then we mostly skated the mellow bank. Cass did a bunch of perfect frontside flips, I barely got one that wasn’t rotated. There were a couple of other dudes there that were fun to skate with. Then we went over to dog park. The puddles took away some of the fun and we played a game of SKATE. Cass won again, I had halfcab flip and heelflip back to back, but other than that didn’t land much of anything. Then it was off to 303 and some filming which didn’t go so well.

(setup 8.5 null vhs deck, jessup ultragrip, ace af1 55, 52mm snot pink/yellow swirl 101a, new balance numeric 272 maroon size 11.5 half insoles)
(pain level 5/10)