skate journal: long day of skating dog park, loveland park, loveland streets (feb 7, 2026)
On a very nice morning I met up with a fun crew at dog park. It would be a fun session. Jake, Jesse, Bratcher, Paul, Eric. I had a setup change that felt good. 8.25/14.25 venture titanium 53s. Jesse was killing some flip tricks out of the gate like heelflip, f/s halfcab heelflip, halfcab heelflip. Paul had his tricks pretty good. Jake had a 2nd try kickflip, some good back 50s, a good crooks on the wood ledge. Saw Eric get heelflip and first try lipslide the green curb. Bratcher had some cool slappy reverts on it. I skated decent for me, but can’t seem to remember much. I know I had a slow fakie 50 on the wood bench which was new and tall for me. At the end Paul, Jake and I played treflip. Paul would get a few after a bit. I would get one after a long bit. A nice way to end the session.
Then I met Bo, Hayden, Noè at Mahaffy. It was super windy so not too fun. Bo killed it though, popping over everything. The wind seriously messed with speed. I got a noseslide to fakie on the bank to curb and a few good feeling crooks on the ledge. Hayden and Bo killed the ledge. We left pretty quickly.
Went to the manny pad/ledge school. It was fun. I was quite sore, not wanting to ollie. But around the time I started to get some crooks I started filming, but it was worth it because Noè got a great line. Hayden a fun one too. After that Whitman and Alex had some cool tricks. Noè went for a manny trick he’s never done. Bo did kickflip manual shove out. I came remotely close to kickflip 50. A line of noseslide then crooks, a no comply 180 after. It was a really fun day.
(setup 7/10 null 20 year 8.5/14.25, venture titanium 5.8 ace bushings, 53mm bones stf v1 pj, splay rev s-series green size 12 renind impact cush insole)
(pain level 4/10)