skate journal: frederick and lafayette with lots of people (oct 15, 2022)
If I remember correctly the crew at Frederick was Joe, Eric, Davi, Rob then Brian and Hayden. Rob, Joe and I tried front shoves to fakie on the mellow bank to begin. Joe got a bunch, but they weren’t clean. I slammed super hard on one and hurt my neck again. Rob did one perfectly then went on to kill the bank to curb. I couldn’t get a halfcab flip, Joe got fakie varial flip. More highlights in random order. Brian ollieing up and down the euro kickers and Rob getting his back up. Eric boardslid the long copy/paste flatbar. I ollied up the ledge with Joe’s board and then mine. Tried to do a train off the kicker with Joe doing front shove, me doing kickflip, Rob back 180 and Brian a cool powerslide disaster thingy. I would get a couple good feeling kickflips though and followed one with a crooks on the ledge. Davi learned how to do hippy jumps almost on accident after rolling down the double ledges. Rob had some sick boardslide transfers. Hayden so casually killed it. Back smith the bump to ledge, manual back 180 the pad, halfcab manual revert to fakie manual. Also good seeing Peyton shredding again doing his crazy tricks.
After some lunch we ended up at Lafayette. I was very sore so I hucked kickflip bank rides for a while. I was close to a couple, but ended up giving up. My head just wasn’t in the game. Also did a very slow noseslide down the hubba. We had lost Hayden and Rob, but gained Cass. Davi had gotten hurt dropping into the bowl at the end of the Fred session so he was out. Eric did his dream of rock to fakie on the tooth. So sick. Joe took the whole session to get front shove bank ride, but it was sick. He had also 50’d the hubba. Cass had some good front noses and bertlemanns. Brian went off with the line at the end which was so sick. I guess it’s a front hurricane? Fun times, fun crews.
(setup 8.3 null vhs deck, jessup ultragrip, ace af1 55, 51mm spitfire f4 99a classic shape, new balance numeric 440 blue size 12 half insoles)
(pain level 5/10)