skate journal: dog park with gordon and paul then some solo willville later (july 4, 2025)
Met Gordon and then Paul after a while at dog park on a warm morning. I went back to 8.3 with thunders. Hated it. I think I hate every setup at this point. Anyway, warming up was mid for me. Gordon was ripping, poppy grinds, shoves and manuals. Paul came and immediately back 50’d the bench. I had a line of crooks the bench then back 50 front 180 out the curb. Tried several halfcab crooks, was not close. Took a bit to ollie the grate then boardslide the taller portable flat bar. I was wearing the Emerica MJ remakes. They felt good as far as pain, but were not very grippy. Gordon got a line of nollie back 5-0, front nosegrind, nollie nose manual. But never linked them all together again when we tried to film it. Paul went in on noseslides over the top tier. He took a while, but he got it. I was trying a line of crooks then kickflip 50 which I got kind of close to, but not that close. Then it started to rain a lot harder and longer than it looked like it would.
(setup 4/10 null time warp 8.3, jessup ultragrip, thunder 149 team hollow, 51mm spitfire f4 101a classic, emerica og-1 black size 12 with footprint gamechanger insoles)
After a couple of naps I ended up at Willville with a different setup. Well, same everything except trucks. Didn’t like it. Imagine that! I mostly skated the shady flatround area. Kickflips were hard, but I did manage some halfcab flips and fakie bigflip. No treflips though argh. Posed a bunch of kf nose stalls which were kind of close. Couldn’t ollie for crap with this setup though and couldn’t even axle stall the upper knobbed ledges. The tree growth made the manuals weird. At the end I made myself do 10 tricks on the lower ledge. I think every trick was a non-ollie trick except for front 50. Still fun. Glad I skated an eliminated another setup from contention.
(setup 4/10 null time warp 8.3, jessup ultragrip, slappy lights 8.25 with indy 92a bushings, 51mm spitfire f4 101a classic, emerica og-1 black size 12 with footprint gamechanger insoles)
(pain level 3/10)