skate journal: valmont for the game before the game (jan 24, 2016 day 24)
Went out to Valmont area feeling pretty lazy, but wanting to get the varial flip challenge out of the way. I warmed up on the bank then went over to the main area. The ledge is almost skateable finally, it was wet, but no ice. I did a line of kickflip up the curb, ollie the wood pallet then ollie off the dock over the ice. It felt really cool. I had tried the line with a heelflip instead of the ollie over the pallet, but I couldn’t land the heelflip. It felt cool to ollie the pallet anyway as it forced me to go faster. Then I spent some time trying to manual across and down a sidewalk pad off the street. Next up was the varial flip which didn’t take long. I tried to do a fakie varial flip too and landed a few, but so horribly that I didn’t want to use it. It was funny because I landed one of them as this dude randomly cruised by on a longboard with his dog. It startled me then made me laugh. Lastly I went and tried Rick Flips for about 30 minutes and got so stoked when I actually landed one! It’s been a long time since I’ve landed one of those.
(setup 8.25 null venture 5.2 hi’s 3 washers inside 52mm spitfire 99a F4 bones med bushings nb# pj stratford 533 burgundy)