skate journal: neil visit day 6: louisville ledge spot and willville (july 17, 2025)
After a nice breakfast at Southside we dropped Joe off to the bus and met jack at a newish spot in Louisville. It was sunny and very hot. Jack said he wasn’t sure he could skate and proceeded to do a gap to front board within a few minutes of us being there. Then went on to do some fun lines and even film a tech banger. Rob napped in the shape. I was jealous. Although i did have some fun with little front 180s and switch noseslide variations. Neil went in on some wallrides and front 50s on the lower ledges, lots of shoves all over. Cass showed up and went in on back 180 nosegrinds and kind of got some. At the end Jack, Neil and I played on the double stack curb in the street. Neil got a cool front shove then front 50 on it. I somehow eeked out a slappy crook that made my day.
Then Rob, Neil and I went to Willville. I didn’t do much, but came close to a halfcab heel on flat and some nose manuals. Rob did manual and no comply manual into the bank. Neil was feeling it, lined out some noesslides, ollies, kickflips, shoves and no comply fingerflips.
(setup 5/10 8.25 null time warp, null grip, thunder team hollow 148, 51mm spitfire f4 101a classic, new balance numeric 430 b/w size 12 currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 4/10)