{"id":14528,"date":"2023-09-29T21:57:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T03:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/?p=14528"},"modified":"2023-09-29T21:57:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T03:57:00","slug":"skate-journal-i-got-to-skate-stalin-plaza-in-prague-sept-25-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/2023\/09\/29\/skate-journal-i-got-to-skate-stalin-plaza-in-prague-sept-25-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"skate journal: I GOT TO SKATE STALIN PLAZA IN PRAGUE!!!!!! (sept 25, 2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xxFBEYMtIlQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After a long bus ride and walk through the city I arrived at the long stairway to the granite fortress known as Stalin Plaza.\u00a0 They were filming a movie on one set of stairs and told me it was closed so I had a pretty good panic attack as I went up the other side. \u00a0 But it was good and I arrived to an empty plaza and sat to calm down for a while, did some warm ups then cruised around and checked it all out.\u00a0 It was way larger than I had thought.\u00a0 The lower level was cool too but some annoying kids and rollerblader had shown so after a couple noseslides and slappies I went back to the main area. For about an hour I felt pretty good on my board.\u00a0 I had a really fun run on the higher pinkish ledges of noseslide to fakie, halfcab noseslide then crooks.\u00a0 I had posted up and did a few crooks in a row.\u00a0 It felt great to get a few.\u00a0 Like it was the whole reason I bought a new board when my luggage went missing.\u00a0 I also got a couple slow front 50s that took way too long.\u00a0 Then skated lines for a bit just having fun.\u00a0 Switch front nose, halfcab flip, crooks, noseslide, bail a treflip. \u00a0 I didn\u2019t try many flippers though, wanted to take advantage of the granite.\u00a0 Tried noseslide 270 shove for a while.\u00a0 Kind of got one somewhat quickly, but couldn\u2019t get a better one.\u00a0 Some other people showed up so I stopped selfie filming.\u00a0 My body had also mostly shut down so everything had become a struggle.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t do much more, enjoyed watching some dudes play some really good games of SKATE.\u00a0 Then Liz and India showed up, filmed me do one last crooks and we bounced off to the castle.\u00a0 Felt pretty amazing to skate this spot and made me want to be much better at ledges if somehow that is possible getting into my 50s. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(setup 8.25 flower, mob grip, venture 5.6 shake junt v-hollows, spitfire 51mm f4 99a classic, new balance numeric 288 b\/w no insoles size 11.5)<br>(pain level 5\/10)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a long bus ride and walk through the city I arrived at the long stairway to the granite fortress known as Stalin Plaza.\u00a0 They were filming a movie on one set of stairs and told me it was closed so I had a pretty good panic attack as I went up the other side. 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