skate journal: louisville park with dave and rob (april 1, 2016 day 92)
On a cool day I went out to Louisville park. I would meet up with Dave and eventually Rob. I started out just kind of cruising around, nothing special. Did a few long cali grinds. Started trying front 50 kickflip out. Didn’t get very close. I was on the bigger board again. It felt good for the most part. Dave showed and a mostly hip session went down. I took a long time to get a backside flip over the hip. Dave did a frontside cab and some good pop shoves. I hucked 360 flip, half cab flip, cab flip before settling in on fakie bigflip which also took awhile to land. Dave started trying these sketchy back 50s with no setup and grind into the bank. I thought he was going to die. I was happy when he stopped trying it. Ha. Then Rob showed. Rob! On his first day back on a board after his annual trip to Ireland. He looked good out there. Front board pop outs, manuals, ollies over the hip, crailslides. Killing it. I was liking my bigger board until we went to the hockey rink for flatground friday. Man that big board was harder to get around. We played a game of SKATE which I managed to win, but it was only because Rob didn’t want to try fakie flip yet. Skated flatground a bit longer. I didn’t land much, but a halfcab flip felt really good so it kept me from obsessing over my smaller setup sitting in my car patiently waiting for me to skate it again.
(setup 8.38 null ollie deck, venture wides, venom 91a bushings, bones 51mm stf v2 nbnumeric pj stratford 533 steel/gum)