skate journal: lafayette sunday morning then louisville butter ledge (jan 18, 2026)
On a nice morning I went to Lafayette to meet up with Brian and a crew of others Cass, Jake, Gordon, Gray, Kyle, Will for a minute, and more. I really struggled for a long time. After some warm up there was a flyout session out of the bank. Jake got comfy with ollies. Cass ripped the front shoves. Gordon nollie and shoves. I could not get a kickflip and it made me so mad. Oh we had skated the toilet bowl some and I slammed on my first roll in. Argh. Brian and Jake had some tricks on the taller steeper walls. Eventually I swapped my setup out for the 8.25/Indy setup and liked it more, but that’s not saying much. I would struggle to get a line that was the one thing I was somewhat happy with. Kickflip on the mellow mountain bankpipe then a kickflip to fakie on the other bank. Oh there were some fun wallies over the corner of the rock. Gordon had some good back 50s on the granite pad. Will had some good front 50s on it. I couldn’t even 50 it. Kyle killed a bigflip up the euro. Brian had cool back 180 nosepicks up it.
Gordon, Cass and I went to nearby by Ryan Elem. Nothing good happened. We just kind of dorked around on the little brick bank. Cass went for front shove fakie. Gordon was close to back tail on the wall and popping it back into the bank.
Then we went to the metal curb spot, but were looking at the 7 stair out ledge then found this nearby. Such a sick spot. Dear Mark Suciu, come skate this, your quick feet would destroy it. Anyway, Gordon was quick on the front 50s through the kink and the 180 out was nice. I struggled for some questionable crook jibs. Cass was the noseslide king and shoved out through the kink which is pretty nuts.
(setups 8.3/slappy highs 1/10, 8.25 indy titaniums 2/10, splay rev s-series black size 12 nb272 insoles and currex runpro insole which I liked less than the reminds)
(pain level 5/10)