skate journal: lafayette park in the warmth (feb 6, 2015 day 37)
Had the day off work and went to Lafayette around 9:30 in the morning. I had the park all to myself and did lots of cruising around. That park can be really fun when it’s not crowded. I had a run in the toilet bowl that was super fun with lots of Rampy tricks in a row. Just silly ones like front disaster revert, fakie front 50, front smith, fakie back smith fakie. It was fun. I skated the little manny pad ledge for awhile. Did front 50, front 50 front 180 out, front 50 shove out, front 5-0, front 5-0 shove out and manual. Skating granite is fun. My board felt a little big at times, but that’s to be expected after the recent change. Had some fun lines starting with the ledge, then an ollie on the manhole hump and a trick on the tight little qp at the entrance of the park. I think once I did front 50, ollie, hurricane. Nolan came on his lunch break. And when he did quite a few others joined. Scooter kids, bike kids, etc. Ugh. Nolan killed it. The line above was less then 10 tries. He also had a crazy good pop shove nose manual on the manny pad. And of course slayed all the tranny in the park. The huge airs on the extension in the toilet bowl were gnar. Long grinds on the pool coping in the mid bowl. I had a fun line of wallie the rock hip, no comply 180 on flat, fakie flip on the bank, front 50 the bump to ledge. Down the hubba I only got slow noseslides. I was bummed on how scared I was to do even just noseslides. Oh well.
(setup – 8.25 venture wides bones bushings ricta crap wheels)