Don’t get me wrong, Trent McClung is rad too, but man, Diego is changing the game!

It’s been awhile since I’ve skated this spot. Mostly because it’s not really skateable during the winter as the bricks retain moisture. But it was good on this day and way more fun then I remembered. I warmed up slowly on the tiny banked curbs, started going noseslides and before long got into it. Pretty quickly I had a fun line of crooks over one brick section then noseslide to fakie over the next. It felt really cool. I tried to get better crooks, but never really did. I randomly hucked a kickflip nose stall and pretty much did it first try. I got close and technically landed one, but still never posted up like I want. It’s weird how the bigger board felt better for it though. Took too long to do front 50 over a gap, couldn’t get shove out. Did some switch noseslides. Only a few flippers here and there. That old board is pretty shot, flippers would benefit from a new one. Couldn’t get halfcab noseslide over a gap or back 50s. Started hucking front crooks (not over a gap) and got into a bunch of them. It felt pretty awesome. Never landed one, but got really close and it brightened my day.

(setup 8.38 null ollie deck, venture wides, bones stf 51mm v2, venom 91a bushings, nbnumeric pj stratford 533 steel/gum)

Had a lazy Sunday going after such an action packed day the day before. I headed to research ledge late in the afternoon. I brought some wax and it was kind of melted from the warm weather so it caked the ledge. Maybe too much. I started with noseslide and noseslide to fakie, then crooks, boardslide popout, back 50, halfcab noseslide. Some of these were done really badly, but I didn’t want to focus on them. Then went crooks to fakie which took awhile and finally I tried back 50 shove out for awhile and forgot how to back 50. Ugh. I got a little mad at that point. Doing flatground going back up to the starting point went better then expected. I got a lot of my basics. The heelflip first try kind of surprised me, that is one of the tricks I’m supposed to lose with the bigger setup. I ended trying crooks shove out the hard way. I didn’t get close at all, but it seems possible. That’s kind of a dream trick.

(setup 8.38 null ollie deck, venture wides, bones stf 51mm v2, venom 91a bushings, nbnumeric pj stratford 533 steel/gum)