skate journal: dog park early then spring canyon (dec 4, 2022)
Brought my daughter to work at 9:30 and had some time to kill before Rob was ready to head north so I went to dog park. It was quite nice out and I had the park to myself for the most part until a couple of the CU crowd joined, but they are cool. I skated alright. Got a front smith on the low ledge, front 50 180 out (I can’t believe I’ve gotten to the point where I actually am happy I did this it used to be such a warm up). Got a few tricks on the quick up manny pad to ledge like boardslide, crooks, front board. Never got a good manual though and couldn’t commit to 50 on the cinder benches. Jack B showed up, but I had to go. Got a front 50 shove on the c lurb that took way too many tries.
After hitting LOCO and MRKT Rob and I would meet up with Hayden, Noè at a heated Spring Canyon park. I say heated because there were dudes charging so hard. I would never get anything going and would leave so depressed about my skating. Rob charged it though, nose manuals right away, had a line of halfcab manual then nollie lip. Hayden is so fun to watch. You never really know what you’re gonna see. He learned a new trick, fakie front shove switch manual (I think). Noè was having an “off day” which means only a few 20 trick lines ha ha. The kickflips to fakie on the steeper part of the qp were stezy. I was super bummed that it marked the first session that I didn’t get the little rail boardslide first try. I was like 20-0 on that thing. Now I’m 20-1 and feel incredibly depressed about my skating.
(setup null 8.3 vhs, jessup ultragrip, royal 149 ultralights, bones stf pj 51mm v1, new balance numeric 440 brown size 12 half insole)
(pain level 3/10)