skate journal: louisville park then brief honeys hole (sept 22, 2017)
Had the day off work and it was gorgeous out. Randomly chose to meet Dave at the Louisville park. A couple other people were there at times, but for the most part we had it all to ourselves. Both of us were kind of bummed on the park when we first got there, but we ended up having a good time. So I’ll kind of skip the warming up part since neither of us enjoyed it. Dave did that first run with the roll in, front shove, cab, fakie ollie pretty quickly. The roll in looked so scary. I was trying a line with the front 50 shove, but never got it. The front 50 shove, then some form of shove it and then back 50 the tiny ledge. But I couldn’t pull the trigger on the back 50. Kind of bummed on that, but I was hyped to do so many front 50 shoves. Some of them felt so good. I had gotten a few front 180s out and a front 5-0s too. The rainbow dork tricks were fun. I know it’s just a little noseslide to fakie after mine, but I really did like how it felt. Skating the hip was what made the day for both of us. Dave hadn’t done the Creepy Spin over a hip before. He did it twice since my phone overheated. True to fashion for me I took way too long to get the b/s flip, but when I did man it felt amazing. We did a lot more tricks just randomly throughout the session.
Then we did a brief stop here at Honey’s Hole. I haven’t been there since the Off The Couch days. Someone had done a little DIY to it. The parking block being my favorite. I was super stiff at that point though so I basically just did a couple carves, stalls, a nosespick and took too long do do a very easy dropin. Dave worked on back smiths (above) and did some sick wallies. We should go back.
(setup null monico 8.38″ deck, venture 5.8, bones medium bushings, 3 washers on the outside of each axle, 52mm spitfire f4 radial slim green/black, new balance numeric 212 sand 11, spenco 3/4 thinsoles, footprints 5mm insole)