skate journal: dog park puddle meh but dave was shredding (july 19, 2023)
After work I went to dog park to meet Dave, Rob, Jesse, Paul. Much to my disappointment the dog park was covered in puddles. Rob was still charging the manny pad and I stuck over there. Paul joined and squeegeed it. Dave came over from the park and went right into shred mode. Some of the best I’ve seen him skate there. Front 50 180 the smaller narrow bench, wallies the grate, front board the curb over a puddle, front tail the picnic bench from the propped up grate, manuals, front 50 the c, nose manual, dude was shredding. It was inspiring and I wanted to turn it on by my feet, shoes and skateboard had other ideas. I went on to have an absolutely miserable and depressing session where I didn’t land anything. I had started with the thick vans insoles but after they sucked every ounce of pop out of my first ollie I put the Nike ones back in. I played a game of SKATE with Jesse later on where I landed a lot of non flippers, but once we got to the flipper section I couldn’t land anything. Rob had taken off earlier. Saw him get some front 50s and back 180 out, manuals, back 50s, halfcab noseslides, etc. Paul was doing his typical shredding.
(setup 1/10 8.3 pmg, jessup ultragrip, ace af1 55, snot 52 pink swirls, vans wayvee white size 12 nike sb dunk insoles)
(pain level 7/10 knee, foot, heel bruise from saturday)