skate journal: thornton park with nate and bernie (dec 10, 2015 day 330)
Feeling sore and tired from the Crisis premiere Nate and I went to Thornton park. Nate was super hyped as I suspected because this park rules. We pretty much had the park to ourselves and Bernie showed after about an hour of skating. Everyone skated decent it seemed. I was still in a bit of a funk, but skated better. The noseslide to manual to back 180 out hyped me up as did Nate’s line above. Nate did back 50s over the manny pad all easy, had some cool manuals/nose manuals across the slant. Bernie showed. We took awhile to do the kickflips/180s above. I made the physical challenge of 10 tricks on the ledge at the bottom of the bank above. I started off really sucking, but would eventually get to 10 or more. The back 50 was the scariest. My legs didn’t want to pop at all. Bernie and Nate did some bangers. Bernie had front smith 180, almost front smith kickflip out. Nate had back 5-0, back nosegrind, back smith. My “better” tricks were front 50 back 180 out, front 50 shove out. As much as I sucked it made me how rarely I skate a ledge like this. I need to do it more. We played a “no mercy” game of SKATE that I think Bernie would eventually beat Nate with a cab flip. I couldn’t back nosegrind the tiny ledge. Good session.
After some Chipotle we met Matt at Safeway ledge. I was beat. I got a couple 50s then just hucked front crooks for awhile before giving up and walking over to the auto parts store to get a new headlight. Matt and Nate ripped it up. Nate did a fakie back tail, front tails and some other tricks I’m forgetting. Matt did all of the basics going fast. Front 5-0 180, fakie nosegrind 180, front 5-0 shove, front tail front shove. So good.
(setup 8.38 null venture wides bones medium bushings 50mm v1 stfs nb# pj stratford 533 brown/gum)