skate journal: some street skating and a bit of riverside museum in glasgow (june 9, 2026)
Had some free time in the morning. Went to the riverside skatepark again. there were skate/bike lessons. I attempted to skate it, but wasn’t really feeling it and could tell the people doing the lessons weren’t hyped. So I skated a street spot on the other side of the bridge. The ledges were super tall. Tall enough I couldn’t even noseslide. It started to rain and my foot was killing me. It dried quickly. I took a long time to get the manual into the bank. The bank was quite a bit steeper to me than it looks in the video. Maybe because my foot was killing me and I was afraid of any impact. A manual front 180 into the bank would have been so much cooler. Went back to the skatepark since the lessons were on lunch break. But the vibe was so weird and the skate coaches were just cruising around vibing and I hated it. Seems like dudes with fresh Asics and Ace trucks are likely to be vibers. so I went back to the street spot. On the other side I tried to fakie bigflip into the mellower bank. Then sw 180 in. Then I wanted to sw 180 manual in, but ended up having to leave.
(setup 2/10 null sample 8.5/14.25 jessup pj ultra thunder team hollow 149 53 pink snot franky vans half cab wafflecup beige size 12 footprint gamechanger insoles)
(pain level 8/10 os peroneum pain was bad enough I shouldn’t have been skating, but when you only have one chance to skate a spot, you skate the spot )