skate journal: dog park with gordon then snowboard jump with everyone (nov 9, 2025)
Went to dog park around 11 after it kind of warmed up. Met Gordon and Bratcher, although Jack left pretty quickly. We did our thing for a bit then Gordon and I both went in on tricks/lines. He was trying back 5-0 front 180 out on the green box. I was trying a line of halfcab flip, boardslide, kickflip on the taller wood qp. Except I completely could not halfcab flip. Like to the point Gordon suggested maybe I should skate an 8″ board again. Sheesh. He would get close. I would get like 3 halfcab flips out of a million and never get the kickflip at the end. I changed the line to start with crooks, still didn’t get the kf. Gordon never got the 5-0 180. He changed his line to nosegrind, bluntslide, nollie back 180 on the qp which he did get. Like an hour later (not really) I got a bad kf very low on the qp. Somewhat happy I got it at least. Brian, Kyle, Sean, Mike showed. I was toast at that point though.
So we took the party to the ol’ bikepath snowboard jump. Joe was 3/3 on boosted hardflips and Jack was filming him. It was insane. The crew got rather large. Brian, Ashton, Brandon, Skelly, Mike, Wade, Jack, Dan, Garrett, Chris, Preston, maybe more. No one landed tricks easily. But some highlights. Skelly one foots. Brian almost got back 3 no comply. Ashton front heel. Brandon mega bolts treflip. Mike no comply 180. Wade front 180. Jack was a sweetheart and filmed. Garrett mostly watched traffic as did Dan. Chris with the mega heelflip then back heel. I took a while to get a kickflip and then threw my board when I couldn’t to a b/s flip. But I threw it so hard I injured my shoulder. Luckily it doesn’t seem too serious, but man, insult to injury. Fun crew, fun to witness, wish I could have landed a trick I liked today. Then we ate at Dark Horse an it was fun.
(setup 1/10 null 3.8 flaherty, jessup ultra pj, venture v8 5.8 with ace bushing and titanium hanger, 52mm spitfire f4 99a pink/green classics, strike mvmnt street transit trainer black/gum size 12 with currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 4/10)