skate journal: Fort Greene in the heat (july 28, 2015 day 203)
Around noon I got out to skate for a bit. Thanks to Quartersnacks I knew this spot was close. I went by a couple other playgrounds that showed up on google maps first, but they were overrun with kids. I just wanted a shady spot to do flatground without tons of people around. But this is NYC so that isn’t a possibility. I ended up at the Fort Greene spot. There were so many no skateboarding signs. People were working out on the structure or chilling in the shade next to it. I was a bit weirded out, but I still skated it. Poorly. The ledges are quite tall. As you can see in the photo they are technically 4 stairs high, but it’s more like a 3 stair height. I did a few crooks that felt cool on the lower ledge. Then tried to ollie on, front and front 50, but couldn’t get the juice. Flatground was going bad on about everything except treflips where I landed almost every one of them. I managed to ollie up, crook and back 180 off very badly. I was a little bummed how tall the ledge felt to ollie off of. Still felt like I did something though. Then I got sick of the people doing martial arts staring at me all weird and skated off. Thought I might find something else to skate, but I didn’t and ended up back at the apt.
(setup 8.1 null venture lights thunder bushings 52mm stf v3 nb# pj stratford 533 cream)