skate journal: dog park early then fort collins high with nullers (april 13, 2024)
On a warm morning I went to dog park. Bratcher, Jesse and Tim were there. Tim was shredding extra hard doing some really long slappies. I was skating alright. Tried a line of crooks the back of the tall ledge then really close to kick back 50 the lurb. Jesse, Jack and I played a game of SKATE. I managed some very defensive takes on a lot of non-flip tricks and managed to win it at the end with a few flippers in a row fakie flip, halfcab flip, heelflip. Finally got a really slow fakie 50 on the bench. Then I had to go meet Nullers.
Later on we ended up at Fort Collins HS which I haven’t been to in like 20 years. Maybe like 18, but either way, crazy. Last time I was there I was filming Metal Matt pop over a huge bar. Jack was struggling early then hit a tree branch with his head. But he managed to go on and do some tricks including a crazy nose bonk. Garrett flowed around and went in on a gnarly manual. I filmed Bo get a cool line where he popped up the 3 and over the rail. Joe did some high speed hard flips on flat but couldn’t get it over the rail. I ended up not filming much so I skated a lot. I basically tried two flip tricks then front 180 a 3 stair for an hour. I only got to the 3 stair like 4 times. I did get a front halfcab heel for the first time in a while. Ultimately the line I got was fakie flip, halfcab flip, front 180. After that Garrett got his manual and I took a few tries to ollie a slightly taller 3 stair then noseslide 180 a tall bench. I had fun ollieing down the 3, but the noseslide was a struggle. I kind of got it. It was a fun skate. Was hyped to street skate and then spend $500 on a marg (not really but it felt like it).
(setup 8.25 pmg, jessup ultragrip, thunder hollow light 148 royal bushings, 52mm bones stf v1, new balance numeric 272 teal size 12 half insole and currex run pro insole)
(pain level 4/10)