skate journal: lafayette park with matt then a short safeway ledge session (May 9, 2014)
Posted in Skate Journal on May 10th, 2014 by corpoWent to Lafayette park right after work on a pretty nice friday. It was pretty windy at times though. I got there slightly sooner and took a couple warm up runs in the fish pond then Matt made me drop into the pro bowl (shallow end). Scary. He kept his speed all good and almost carved tile. Then we skated the flow bowl which turned into a bail fest. I think I finally scratched a little grind on the pool coping, but I’m not even sure. He back 50’d it good, but couldn’t get front tail. I bailed front d’s over and over. Then we kinda did whatever for awhile. Matt back 50’d the bump to big ledge. I spend a lot of time working on halfcab flips. Ugh. Got a noseslide down the hubba. I got a few tricks on the tight qp at the entrance of the park. I was hyped on all the kickflips on the bank to set up for it. Eventually got a tiny boneless on it. I was struggling with flatground, definitely feeling the big board lately and its starting to wear on me a bit. Matt tre flipped up the long euro, had some big ollies in the snake run and got a nollie flip to fakie on a bank.
Then I went to Crisis to deliver some boards for awhile. Then I went to Safeway ledges and it was pretty windy. I was super stiff at first. Eventually got skating harder and did a line of crooks the fence ledge, front 5-0 the reg ledge then a horrible treflip. Got a few back 50s, back 5-0, kick back feeble (supposed to be 50), front tails. Flatground was pretty bad. Came close to a nollie tre, was 1/10 on heelflips. Doh.