skate journal: dog food park, bank to ledge, plaza, abandoned warehouse fun times (may 26, 2024)
Out on a nice but breezy day we met at dog food park. It was Joe, Neil, Rob and I meeting Garrett, Cass and Kyle. Kyle was going in on huge wallride yank ins and got frontside and to fakie. Cass casually front 50 to fakie the qp ledge gap. Neil was popping on the the ledge and riding into tailslide, boardslides, a bunch of stuff. Joe went in on a line to kickflip on the bank that took him forever, but he won the battle. I kept it mellow just kind of dorking around. Had a little nosejib to fakie the ledge into a bank, a tiny switch front board in honor of the Jam shirt I was wearing. Rob put in some good boardslides, b/s ollies on the bank. Garrett had some good front noseslides.
Then we went to the nearby bank to ledge which was much harder to skate than it looks. Rob kicked it off with a noseslide. Kyle was flying over it and slamming hard. Cass did several front noseslide shoves. Garrett had kickflip over, wallie over, slappy crooks to fakie and slappy crook transfer. I took forever to get a noseslide to fakie that felt so easy and mostly unrewarding when I did it. Joe battled front rock even longer and would win. Neil had a super sick boardslide transfer and the funniest fall of the session on a no comply to tail.
Then we went to a nearby plaza. I did the little boardslide to fakie then switch front noseslide which was fun, but when I tried to line it out with an ollie down a 2 stair I snapped my tail. Doh! Kyle did kickflip up a ledge to nollie bigspin over a trash can whoa. Garrett did some good crook jibs, back tail, halfcab noseslides and halfcab crooks. Joe had some of his basics on the ledges.
Then we went to a nearby abandoned warehouse. Cops rolled in and were like “Oh, you’re just skating, no worries then have fun”. Awesome! Kyle front 50d a death gap a million times and had a ride on 5-0 kickflip out. Joe worked the ledge game and then battled front lip to 50 to shove and took a bad slam in the process. Neil was popping up and down and around and manualling, kickflipping over a hole in the ground, one foots down the gap, so good. Cass did a ride on grind and then front noseslide shove that was amazing. Rob had some no comply shoves and ride on grinds as well as some boardslides and noseslides I think. I had a terrible slam on a flatground fakie flip which I blame on inadvertently changing my setup due to the broken tail. Had some fun switch ollies over the little hole and switch ride on grinds halfcab out, some fun crooks, couldn’t front 50, tried several kickflip 50s that were somewhat close and a few treflip noseslides which were not even remotely close. Garret did some kickflip manuals and manual to switch crooks. Fun session even if we all slammed hard.
(setups 8.5 with thunder which broke then 8.25 with slaces)
(pain level 4/10)