skate journal: kearney park, filming, york park (sept 3, 2016 day 247)
A Null mission! I was super hyped on this. It’s been too long. Jack and I met Hayden and Riley at Garrett’s house and we rolled off to Nebraska. The main purpose was for Riley and Jack to enter a contest they had been invited to. We were going to stay in York with Eric, but when we heard it was raining we stopped in Kearney. We went to the skatepark. It was hilarious. Such a small town scene. At least almost everyone had a skateboard. But there were teenage girls sitting nearby yelling at people saying they want to see a slam. They sucked. There was one young kid trying to prove the park was his by trying every trick that Riley, Garrett or Hayden did. It was quite hilarious. He quickly gave up and started asking what all the tricks were called. For some reason I just kept saying he was doing “Phantom” grinds, jumps, etc. No harm was done, it was just fun. I sucked it up. Those dudes were absolutely destroying. It was fun to watch, I flimed a little, but tried to skate as much as possible because I knew I would be doing a lot of filming. I had some fun on the mini at least, it was perfect. For some reason I kept getting in to sweepers, but couldn’t jump into the ramp. I also took forever to land a boardslide on the smallest bump to bar ever. I kind of blame my smaller setup. Argh. But that would change soon as Hayden snapped his deck so I had no choice but to give him my brand new 8.25 and setup my old 8.38 deck. It’s like 4 years old so it has no pop. We just filmed at that point anyway though. Jack got a couple of bangers and Hayden too. We moved on to York and met Eric at a mostly dark and wet skatepark. It was a mellow session. I did kickflip to fakie and b/s flip on the bank, but that was about it. Hayden ripped it pretty hard, but then we called it a night.
(setup 8.25 null riley persing deck, venture 5.2 hi, thunder bushings, 3 washers inside each wheel, 52mm spitfire f4 101a, new balance numeric pj 533 steel/gum)