skate journal: warm sunny day on the little manny pads at platt with rob and will (nov 20, 2022)
On a warm afternoon I drove out to see if the little manny pad at Platt was dry. It was! And I had somehow forgotten there were two of them surrounded by perfect flatground. Never went to the 3 stair at all which I kind of regret. I had the place to myself for about 20 minutes. Warming up was slow as I was pretty sore. It took me like 20 tries to get a regular manual, but halfcab flips were working. I had a dream of a “warm up” line of halfcab flip, manual, nose manual, backside flip. Came remotely close, but never got it and it certainly wouldn’t just be a warm up for me. I had gotten remotely close to a nollie back tail front 270 out on the curb. I mean I did it, but not smooth with some tic tacs. It felt cool though. Had a couple heelflips, a sketchy wallie/nollie off the curb, a few tic tac’d fakie bigflips and somewhat close to front tail shove. I feel like my style was even worse than normal for some reason. Will and Rob had no problems manualling the little pads. For me the crack rights messed it up. Rob was shredding. Lots of good wallie/nollies, manuals, a line with manual, nollie tail body varial and no comply front shove “over the hip!” ha ha. Will had some poppy fakie ollies/nolllies/switch ollies, manual drop down manual, almost halfcab manual back 180, kickflips.
(setup null beatles 8.1, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.2 low v-cast plate v-hollow hanger 4 washers inside each axle royal bushings, 51mm pj bones v1 103a, new balance numeric 440 brown size 12 half insoles)
(pain level 4/10)