skate journal: fun times at valmont with dave (nov 22, 2022)

Posted in Skate Journal on November 23rd, 2022 by corpo

On a really nice afternoon I was able to coordinate a session with Dave. We started at Valmont and basically skated there until dark. It was a bizarre session. I think Dave and I both skated well, but there was an Evergreen Billy twin hogging the park and charging right at people, drunk dude trying head stand tricks and fingerflips, super hype dude that would yell so loud anytime anyone got remotely close to landing a trick, little snake kid and some dude doing wallie grinds on the barrier so good. Dave started on the hip, some really good nollies, back 180s and switch back 180s. I was kind of all over the place. Did a line of slow crooks on the edge of the euro bank then kickflip on the shark fin. Also a barrier ride linked with a lucky backside flip with toe drag over the hip. I had also done first try kickflip and kickflip fakie on the mellow bank. Dave got the barrier axle stall. It was funny because he had to do 3 pivots in a row on the west side steep qps before he would try it. I randomly decided to film it and he did it that try. I was failing treflips to fakie on the mellow bank although getting both feet on a lot of them. I was trying noseslides then kickflips and changed to crooks while Dave randomly filmed me. It’s funny that we didn’t even know we were being filmed yet. But after that I intentionally filmed Dave do the nose stall Hale transfer which was so sick. Then over to dog park for a bit. Tried some ride on nosegrinds on the metal cover, Dave almost did it switch. I did some slappys and a few other things, but we bounced pretty quick. Fun session.

(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)
(setup satisfaction level 5/10 ha ha felt like starting this. i liked how easily it flipped, but i felt dumb tic tacing around)
(pain level 2/10)