skate journal: trying casper stalls forever, then some parking garage curb action (march 26, 2016 day 86)
Drove around looking for a dry bank to try casper stalls and ended up at the spot Dave does the fakie pogo above. I pretty much only tried them for two hours straight. The first hour I was solo. I would do some kickflips and switch back 180’s on flat and stuff, but for the most part I just failed casper stalls for what felt like forever. Dave used to have a freestyle board and had that trick so he gave me some pointers. As did Jack. Basically my biggest problem was trying not to do a kickflip. I think it took 45 minutes before I even got into one stall. Near the end I had a couple of close ones, but that was it. Dave got a couple without the casper, a fakie pogo (first try), kickflip and fakie flip.
Then we went to this parking garage. I was hoping the entrance to it would be dry, but it wasn’t at all. So we skated this curb for another couple hours or so. We did a lot, tried a lot. Dave did a much better noseslide 270. That was a new one for him. We both did some regular front tails we were hyped on. Dave had switch noseslides, slappy feeble 270 out, back 50, front 50, front 50 180 out, legit front hurricanes, lots of front shoves and the sickest switch crooks! A bunch of switch crooks! They were so incredible. I wasn’t feeling all that great, took a few tries to get a slow back 50, had some fun front 50s, “slappy” front and back tails, slappy crooks, posed kick back tails and fakie flip front tails, got close to nollie inward heels, struggled to ollie the tiny median at the top of the garage, learned slappy hurricanes! Skated way longer then my body wanted to and could not get a switch flip to save my life at the end of the session.
(setup: 8.1 null control room, venture 5.25 lows with 3 washers inside, venom 91a bushings, 50mm bones stf V1 wheels, nbnumeric pj stratford 533 steel/gum)