skate journal: flatground battles with rob and dave at the dog park (sept 26, 2017)
After work on a cool, but perfect day I met Rob and then Dave at Dog Park. Rob and I basically arrived at the same time. I’m always amazed at how quickly he can start rattling off real tricks. Pretty much out of the gate he had a 4-5 trick line with 180s, no comply 180, front shove, kickflip. I took at least a half hour to start trying tricks, but ended up feeling pretty good. Dave showed around the time I was trying backside flips. I got one and then technically another which was funny with one foot up in the air trying to balance. Dave did his fakie/nollie shove routine to get warmed up. Rob settled in to a battle with varial heels. He would try them on the gray painted side or in a run consisting normally of back 180, halfcab flip then var heel. I’m not sure I’ve seen him do so many halfcab flips so that was cool. Dave was rattling off long solid runs with shoves, cabs, bigspins. His tricks are so solid. After awhile I set the phone down to film because it seemed like Dave was on the verge of landing a treflip. Rob got the varial heel shortly after that. I had struggled with heelflip, but was happy to get a few in a row. I couldn’t get nollie tre in the line after though. I started in on nollie tres for awhile and got one. Felt so great, it’s been months and months since I’ve landed one. Rob and Dave were working on frontside bigspins. Rob got the butter one above directly after a gnarly slam. Dave got some too, but I’m not sure why I couldn’t find one in the clip. Dave had a gnarly slam on a switch front big attempt then put it down. I was trying treflips and fakie treflips over and over. I would get a few trefilips with a hand down which doesn’t really count, but I think I figured out what was happening (even though I never would get a clean one). Dave had a bunch of good back bigspins, but they were not where the camera was looking. Rob and Dave left and I tried fakie tres for awhile getting super close. I had wanted to do regular, nollie and fakie tre in one day, but couldn’t quite get it. Wheel bite was getting me. Fun day, we all skated hard.
(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 344 white 11.5, spenco 3/4 thinsoles, footprints 5mm insole)