skate journal: fun saturday evening old guy session at frederick (aug 19, 2023)
Super weird day. Went on a hike up at Caribou with Liz to cool down. We got more than we bargained for and get stuck in a crazy thunderstorm getting totally soaked and hailed on. But it was still quite hot down here. Around sunset I drove towards a thunderstorm and met Mike, Rob and Dave at the quickly drying Frederick skatepark. It was fun skating with lightning in the distance. Seemed like all of us were skating decent somewhat quickly. Saw Rob do a bigspin on the steeper ban right away, Mike a front shove to fakie on the mellow bank, Dave manly feeble transfer into the double bank. There wasn’t really a main group session, we seemed mostly cruising doing our things. The park is really fun, hard to focus on one thing. I saw Rob to back smith, front tail, pivot the bank to curb, manuals, boardslides, front boards, and shredded the shred graffiti with a front board. Mike had some killer long slappies and boardslides, deck check up the euro, maybe no comply 180 over the a-frame, way more than I remember. I couldn’t get a treflip to fakie and was lucky not to roll my ankle. I did have some easy kickflips trying to line out noseslide and ollie up the euro but the darn youth in the pink shirt kept getting in my way. Only new thing I did was a front 180 up the bigger ledge which felt cool, got one regular ollie up and then bailed the kickflip off. Dave got me to ollie up the euro. Dave was ripping. He had some cool combos on the double bank to curb and a special front tail to accidental revert. He was getting up the euro pretty often, dropped down to manual, front bluntslide the mellow bank, dump truck 180 into the bank. It was a fun night with a rad crew, my body was really hurting though. Could have gone for less pain.
(setup 7/10 8.1 null all you need, jessup ultragrip, thunder hollow 147, 51mm spitfire f4 classic 101a, new balance numeric 288 sport white size 12)
(pain level 7/10 knees and feet)