skate journal: silver session turned sugarcane fest at square state (april 4, 2023)
Another cold and snowy day, luckily Brian has created the amazing Square House. I got there around 7 and started with a game of SKATE against Jesse. I was wearing some 306 vulcs since I didn’t have time to fix up the hole in the Swifts or break in some new shoes. They felt okay, not great. But I certainly had troubles popping in them and my flip tricks were suffering. Jesse would go on to beat me but it was a good warm up. Dave showed up around then. I hit the bank to curb with some slappies for a bit trying to line out a kickflip on the bank which for some reason didn’t work. I hit the miniramp for a while. Brian and Gray were competing on who could take the most slams, Gray won. Brian’s casual blunt to fakie is magical. I had a couple alright runs for me and Brian made me smile about it. ha ha. Back to the “street” had some fun noseslides and crooks on the bump to ledge, but couldn’t back them with b/s flip over the hip. Was happy to get a first try kickflip up the euro even if it was sketchy. Went on to be like 3/4 I think before trying backside flips which I was also very close to, but didn’t get. Jesse played the hits with pop shove up the euro, pop shove tail grab the hip, bigflip the bank. Dave was shredding. I think he did a line with slappy crooks to fakie and switch slappy crooks to regs on the bank to curb. Probably also with a switch back 180 over the hip. I got sore near the end so just went back to the tiny qp and tried sugarcanes for a while. Dave eventually came and joined me. I got quite a few, Dave would get a couple too! It was good seeing that he is human and it didn’t come easy. But then he had to go on and do a backside version pretty quickly then challenge me right back to do it. Argh! Ha ha. That was a dream trick of his though so it’s awesome. Some of my attempts look closer than they felt. Gonna be a battle to get that one.
(setup 8/10 8.25 null spanbauer dead spots, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.6 v-hollow royal bushings flat top washer, bones 51mm pj, new balance numeric 306 navy size 12 nike sb dunk insoles)
(pain 4/10)