skate journal: basemar kickflips (aug 17, 2023)

After work on a nice warm evening I was searching for some motivation and thought of a line I had wanted to do at Basemar on a recent walk. Things started slow, ollies felt bad. I had thought a warm up line of kickflip the bump, ollie into the mini bank of the bike path, then nollie bigspin on the same bank further down. I had kind of done it, but super sloppy and had cracked my board pretty bad. A few more tries I snapped the board. Doh. I went to my car and took out the other complete and went to do the same thing and had a bit more luck. The desired line was backside flip the bump, switch 180 into the bank, kickflip the bank. But after I did the first b/s flip I realized there was no chance I could switch 180 in. So i just took a while to do the b/s flip. I didn’t like either setups and felt somewhat excited that I’d be forced to change.

(setups 8.25s royals/mini logos/52s, new balance numeric 288sport white size 12)
(pain level 3/10!)