skate journal: golden in the morning with lots of older dudes (may 17, 2025)
On a super nice morning Paul, Jack, Eric and I rolled to Golden where we met Venture Dave, Miller, Gordon, and more. The little plaza section in the back was mostly closed due to construction unfortunately which made warming up tougher. But I ended up having a pretty fun session and I think most others did too. Bratcher was hiding up on the little qp. Paul and Gordon were ollieing the 3. Gordon lipslide the long mellow ledge like it was nothing, lots of manuals and nose manuals. Paul noseblunts on the bank ditch part. Dave did his patented impossible to fakie, almost got fakie impossible. Lots of manuals and no comply shifty. Eric went to down on the 3 stair rail. He took a lot of slams, but he got a good one. I was happy to get a couple boardslides on the long mellow ledge, kickflips on the little bank, some slow noseslides on the hubba. Had one line I really liked of noseslide to fakie the start of the long mellow ledge, halfcab flip on the bank, switch noseslide the kinked ledge. I couldn’t quite get a fakie tre on the bank, but I did get a heelflip to fakie which is super rare for me and felt awesome. Fun crew and session.
(setup 4/10 8.5 null vhs, slappy lights 8.5, spitfire f4 99a classic orange/black, splay rev b/w size 12 with remind cush insoles)
(pain level 5/10)