skate journal: frederick with skelly and dave (june 18, 2026)
On a very nice night I got to Frederick first and there was literally no one else there. It was almost spooky. I did some warming up. Dave showed. We got into a 3 trick challenge near the bank to curb section. Trick out of the bank, trick on flat, trick into bank. Dave had shove, front shove, shove into the bank multiple times. Along with almost getting 180 sw crooks on the start of the bank to curb. In between bailing kickflips on the longer bank I flailed my 3 trick line of kickflip out, “nollie” front 180, switch nose jib. The kickflip at least felt good. Skelly showed and went immediately to work on popping like crazy. He did multiple lines with like 8 ollies in them. Ollies to fakie on the steeper bank, into banks, out of banks, etc. It was sick, he was charging. He also did a really good ride on grind onto the bank to curb. Halfcabs on the mellow bank. Cool lines on the double bank section after the lights went off. Dave was killing it as usual. Bluntslide shove, bigspins on the steep bank, slappy crooks to disaster revert transfer, manuals, everything. Even ended with a halfcab flip over the hip. I had some noseslides on the bump to ledge, some fun nollie front 180s on the mound, some fakie 50s on the curb. I had fun, but man it’s hard to shake off this rust.
(setup 3/10 8.3 null pepper grip venture v8 5.8 ti hanger 52mm spitfire f4 99a pink/green classics, vans half cab wafflecup beige size 12 fp gamechanger insoles)
(pain level 6/10)