skate journal: york park fun with a rad crew then fremont park ramp in pain (march 17, 2017)
Drove to York overnight. Woke up feeling pretty rested and hung at Eric’s for awhile before heading to York park. As Carleigh, Jack and Eric cruised around the park to warm up I did the foam roller. Ha. It helped though. This ended up being my favorite session of the trip as I was able to skate without too much pain. It’s hard to remember what all went down this far after the session (writing this one week later). Jack learned heelflips out of manual. But of course he kickflipped into every manual. The one in the clip above is so good. He had also done manual front shove to manual, pole jam late shove, front 5-0 back 180 the top step, hurricanes on the parking block, crooks 3 shove on the bank to ledge, noseslide 270 shove, basically everything. Eric was doing his tricks. All were awesome. Blunt transfers on the pyramid, boardslides on the parking block, frontside cali grinds, finger flip tricks I don’t know the real names of, beaming rock fakies. Carleigh got the cali grind too, boardslides on the parking block, bean plants and then we started trying this fun doubles line. We both did cali grinds off the ledge to start, then I did crooks on a ledge and she did front board, then over the hip I tried b/s flip and she tried kickflip. There were a couple where we got to the last trick and had the funniest falls. It was really fun. Then we started just trying the last trick and Eric joined in doing blunt 360 transfer which he did every single time .. except when we landed it! Ha ha. I think that was the end of the session. We went to the crazy hubba thing. Carleigh rode down the stairs and Jack tried to noseslide again for awhile and then slid into home base trying to ollie ollie.
Then we drove to Fremont and met Joe and Damon at the Fremont park. Jack and I were so sore. I did the foam roller for awhile then joined Carleigh and Joe on the mini ramp. It ended up being pretty fun even though my first few runs were super sketchy from being so ridiculously stiff. I got a few Rampy tricks and a bunch of bean plants to tail that felt really fun. Carleigh and Joe had some marathon runs that were impressive. Joe with the patented combos like fakie frontslide axle stall to rock ‘n roll. Carleigh got back disasters, feebles to fakie and I think learned beanplant to tail too. Damon would come up on the ramp and do some crazy fakie shove pivots, fakie shove kickflip out, blunts to fakie, etc.
(setup 8.5 Null Ollie deck, venture 5.8 wides, 3 washers outside each axle, Venom 88a bushings, 52mm Spitfire F4 conical 99a pink/purple wheels, bronson bearings, New Balance Numeric PJ 533 black/white 12 superfeet insoles)