skate journal: fun times at squeekside with a solid crew (march 2, 2024)
On a gorgeous Saturday I got out early to meet up with Venture Dave, Jake, Dave, Kevin, Cass and eventually Jack and Joe. And much to our pleasant surprise Brian showed up too. Work been crazy so I don’t have much time for this so here goes.
Kevin was in town and he’s recovering from knee issues too and just getting back into it. He seemed to have quite a few tricks back but it may have taken him a few more tries than normal. Like the Gish, nollie tre and switch flip off a curb. But it was great seeing him and man he still shreds.
Jake’s back wasn’t feeling it so he didn’t really get to skate much and offered to film. He still did some rock’s and a hurricane on the steepest qp though. Venture Dave with the shoves, front noses, I think got a few nose mannies too.
I felt pretty weird and hesitant still. I would go on to have a fun session and get a little confidence back, but didn’t really do anything I was hyped on. I couldn’t get fakie bigflip or treflip and I wasn’t sure how many times I could try before it was too much for my knee. Did a couple of super slow front 50s on the curb. Slappy crooks were fun, some boardslides and noseslides were fun. I was happy to ollie up the curb slowly a couple times and pose a kickflip or two up it.
Dave was on fire. Slappy crooks the qp to curb, halfcab boardslide transfer, front 50s the ledge, wallie manual body varial (shhh), boardslide transfers, kickflips and much more.
Cass quietly shredded too. Front board off the spine, nollie back neil revert, line of back 180 up the curb halfcab on flat and then back bigspin off the curb.
After that Cass, Kevin and I got some food and met up with Joe and Jack and a little ditch spot. Joe got into some hardflip front noses and front noses. I did a couple of switch nose jibs and a rock ‘n roll on the bank. Really fun day, a lot of skating and my knee seemed mostly okay.
(setup 7/10 generator 8.5 14.25, jessup ultra, venture 5.8 titanium bones medium bushings, bones 52mm v1 stf, vans wayvee white size 12 custom orthotics)
(pain level 5/10)