skate journal: brief berthoud park before the rain (april 27, 2017)
Had the day off work. Had to run some errands including driving to MRKT to pick up some Rabethica shirts. Drove through rain and met Dave and Jake at the Berthoud park. We hadn’t been there since they redid it. There is some new obstacles. It’s got mellow hips and a tiny ledge. So it’s perfect. Oh there is some other stuff too. A few flat bars, quarter pipe, bank with a ledge on top. I felt motivated to skate, but I still started slow. Took me awhile to do front shove over the hip. Jake was doing 50s on the big part of the qp. Dave did pivot then grinded down the escalator which looked super gnarly to me. Then they both got front axle stalls on the bank to ledge which was so gnar. It had started to rain when Jake got his and you could see tracks going up and down the bank. Sketchy. Dave got a back pivot on it too. I had gotten a terrible kickflip over the hip, a couple crooks that fell into noseslide on the main ledge, slow front 50s on the tiny ledge, b/s flip over the hip. I felt okay on my board though. Best I’ve felt in awhile. Dave did back 50 back 180 out on the tiny ledge then went on to do front 180 out as the rain set in. So sick.
Later on in the evening I skated in front of my house for a little bit. I was wearing my 344s to see if I felt better in vulcs. I didn’t. They have better feel and flick, but it hurt.
(setup 8.25 null fortune deck, venture 5.2 low awake trucks, 1/16″ risers, 3 washers inside each axle, venom 88a bushings, swiss bearings, 50mm spitfire classic formula 4 wheels, new balance numeric pj 533 black/white 12 stock insoles)