skate journal: flatgound switch 3 attempts then louisville fun and slams (aug 30, 2016 day 243)
Didn’t have the best day. After work I slept for awhile, bummed out the family complaining about how exhausted I felt and finally went outside to skate a little. I figured I had to land a switch back 3 before I could consider going anywhere. Liz came out to film me and true to form as of late I couldn’t land it. I eventually just sat my phone on the ground and got a very poor mans switch 3. My phone was filming 120 fps and there is only 1 frame with all 4 wheels in the air. Epic.
After that I chose to skate a skatepark. I went to a very crowded Louisville skatepark. It was crowded with kids, bikers, scooters, skateboards, etc. It’s not my kind of scene at all. I was 25 years older then anyone else except the parents waiting for their kids in cars. But I was able to ignore most of them and remind myself why I am trying to skate parks more. Basically just because the ledges are easier then the crappy ledges anywhere in Boulder. I got front 50, front 50 shove, front 50 front 180 out pretty quick. Back 50 the little ledge in the corner. I had some troubles with crooks, I blame the edge of the ledge sticking up so much. I got long line of front 5-0 (was trying 50), kickflip on flat, back 50 the little ledge, noseslide down the hubba. Kickflip, kickflip to fakie and fakie flip on the bank. Had a first try halfcab noseslide. Skated the little snakerun for a bit, did a front d, posed a kickflip front d. Then started trying switch front noseslide 270 out the hard way. I would land one or two, but not good enough to use them against Josh. I even had the hilarious slam above. I also tried nollie flip and heels between tries. Got remotely close to nollie flip. The bigger board has been feeling big.
(setup: 8.5 null message deck, venture 5.8s, thunder bushings, 52mm reed wheels, steele/gum new balance numeric pj 533)