skate journal: more valmont. this time with friends, manuals and switch tricks (sept 8, 2015 day 243)
Had an exhausting day at work. After a nap, a little soccer with Ollie and then a brief flatground dorkery with Matt and Jake out front of my house we met Dave at Valmont. It seemed like we took awhile to get going. Manuals were hard. At least I didn’t have leg pain though. I think everyone got manuals. Nose manuals went down. Lots of close to front 180 nose manuals. Matt added kickflip manual, nollie manual and a really good 360 flip up the curb. Jake and Dave started a varial flip duel. Matt and I joined, but tried them switch. In one almost completely magical sequence Dave landed his, I landed mine, Matt landed his and Jake landed on his. So close to perfection. Jake’s knee was hurting so he mostly sat out. Dave went on to land his first ever switch varial flip! Matt and I tried switch tres for awhile, he would eventually land his all good. He also did switch heel which might be the first trick I’ve seen him not look totally natural on. He is human! I added nollie varial flip and nollie treflip to my flippers for the night. Dave and Jake switch ollied a board. I kickflipped it. Then Jake and Matt chilled as Dave came super close to f/s halfcab manual in hopes of eventually doing it to nose manual. He was also flying around doing manuals and nose manuals all good. I was trying a line of kickflip back tail stall on a curb then front 180 nose manual. Got super close. Had some fun flippers too. We ended when Dave did a front 180 nose manual. Fun times.
(setup 8.1 null venture lows 52mm stf v3 nb# pj stratford 533 brown/gum)