skate journal: cold dog park all to myself (nov 30, 2025)
After a fun morning hanging with Sam and friends at their baby shower I went to dog park around 2pm. The temps were in the low 20s and no one was at the park. A couple people were at Valmont, but I was in the mood for ledges. I had gone back to an old fav setup – 8.25 with 5.8 ventures. It felt mostly great and very poppy, although I didn’t try many flipper because of the cold. I would go on to get most of my normal tricks. Had multiple front 50s on the cement ledge, front 50 shoves and 180 out on the green box pretty consistently. Back 50s on the lurb. Almost got a longer line of crook the metal bench, front 50 the green box, ollie on the lurb, back 180 off, halfcab noseslide. Other rare tricks were fakie 50 halfcab out on the curb and ollie the little kinked round bar. Was a fun session, I skated pretty hard. It was snowing at times, which was funny. I tried to record a front 50 shove on the green box and show the flakes coming down, but it didn’t really come out.
(setup 8/10 null hayden 8.25, jessup ultra, venture 8.5 v8 back truck normal front truck v8 ace bushings titanium hanger washers outside, 52mm spitfire f4 99a pink/green classic, splay rev lt b/w size 12 remind cush insoles)
(pain level 3/10)