skate journal: boulder spot marathon and temper (oct 29, 2016 day 303)
Up early on a Saturday thinking I felt mentally up to skate. I had done yoga, gone for a run and played soccer with Ollie. I went to the research ledge for about half an hour as a warm up for the day before watching Jason. I don’t remember much what I did, maybe just a crooks or two and a terrible back 50. The hill seemed fast to me.
After watching Jason for a short time and a nice sandwich thanks to Brian and Denise I met up with Rob, Carleigh and Jake at this new spot. Rob wanted to skate it, but just skated a curb and wallride instead. Which was totally cool, but it kind of cracked me up. He had some good wallie nollies. Carleigh was skating mostly where Rob was too. I had done a couple of lines like switch front 180 up the curb then front feeble on the banked curb. And I got a crook shove then front shove off the curb. Jake did blunts and a crazy no handed nosepick. Carleigh got a good pivot and some kickflips too I think. Motivation was tough as there was still so much going on with Jason’s stuff.
Then Jake and I met Dave at Southern Hills. We started with a game of SKATE that pissed me off so much. I got letters on tricks like front shove, frontside cab, switch back 180. I skated off almost leaving to my car before deciding to hit the ledges. Luckily after some noseslides and stuff I got a few crooks and it cheered me up. Jake and Dave kept at the game for awhile. I think Dave ended up winning it. I slammed harder then needed on a little kickflip into the handicap wedge. I probably should have left at that point, but no. Jake got halfcab noseslide. Dave had his patented amazing boardslides to fakie and even did it frontside. He also had some solid front 50s and a front 50 180 out. I couldn’t get in front 50 to save my life. It made me really mad. Then a bailed 360 flip and I lost it, focused my board and almost threw it on the roof. I guess this Jason situation has me more stressed then I thought. Luckily after that we all went to Jason’s and celebrated Halloween with him. It was such a great time.
(setup 8.125 null message deck, venture 5.2 low custom hollow trucks with 3 washers inside each axle, 1/16″ riser, stock thunder bushings, 52mm spitfire f4 classic 101a wheels, bronson bearings, new balance numeric pj stratford 533 navy shoes 12)