skate journal: arvada park on my day off with matt and jake (jan 6, 2016 day 6)
On a nice day I picked up Jake and we rolled to Arvada where we met Matt. We had the whole place to ourselves for awhile. I was a bit sore from skating so much the night before. We warmed up in the flat bar area. Lines starting on the flat bar, do a trick on the little bank, then one on the blue bank, or something something. Matt had a bunch of tricks on the flat bar. Back lip, nollie back lip, back tail, front tail, etc. Jake had a line with noseslide on the flat bar, 5-0 to fakie the bank, fakie flip on the blue bank, blunt to fakie on the narrow noping. I tried a line of crooks on the flatbar (just the last second of it), 5-0 to fakie the bank, halfcab flip on the blue bank. Never quite got the hc flip until I went from a different angle. Jake was trying another long line starting with a pole jam and some ollies. Then we were at the pier 7 area for awhile. I took half an hour to back 50 it, Matt back nosegrinded it super good, Jake did fakie back tail. We all had some flippers. Everyong got treflip. Matt had nollie and swith flips. I got a rare (and bad) halfcab heel. Then Jake and Matt left. I skated a bit longer. Tried a line of front 50 or 5-0 the pier 7 ledge, manual the euro pad, 360 flip to fakie on the blue bank. Never got it. Got really close though. I skated the smaller bowl for awhile which was fun, but the pumping made my sore legs ever more sore. Had some fun back 50s, f/s rock and lip in the small section first try felt cool. I posed a bit more, then ended up leaving.
(setup 8.25 null venture 5.2 hi’s 52mm spitfire 99a F4 3 washers inside bones med bushings nb# pj stratford 533 burgundy)