skate journal: morning flatground at dog park then frederick fun with dave after work (dec 10, 2025)
On the way to work I stopped for a brief mostly-flatground session. I had 8.25 with slappy lows and mostly hated it. Especially the incredibly noisy pivot cups. I struggled to kickflip or halfcab flip. Did some basics around the park briefly after flailing at flatground. Then remembered Monico was in a Rick flip challenge so I went in on them. And I got one! And it made me very happy.
After work then a long traffic jam I ended up at a mostly empty Frederick park with Dave. Warming up wasn’t as bad as I thought and for some random reason I thought of Donnie inspiration and we hucked some fs ollies up the bank. And it was super fun. We stuck to the bank area most of the night. We tried lines for quite a while. Dave did his line of fakie flip then bigspin, but of course I got a spam call which messed up the recording. I tried kf to fakie then rick flip for a while but was not close to the rick flip, was also not close to f/s halfcab flip or even f/s flip. I tried some sw front bluntslides and gave up after a slam. Dave had sw blunt slide and front shove over the hip. I had some alley oop fakie frontside grinds down the qp that were fun. This seems like very little, but it was actually a long session and quite fun.
(setup 2/10 8.25 null time warp, jessup ultra, slappy low profile 8.25, 52mm spitfire f4 99a classic pink/green, splay rev lt b/w size 12 with remind cush insoles)
(pain level 3/10)