skate journal: struggles in the cold at golden park (sept 28, 2017)
I was feeling warn down and tired, but the opportunity to meet up with Mackenzie and get the missing Null board had me driving to Golden. I was solo. I arrived to a crowded parking lot and was bummed at how crowded the park was too. I started by mostly just cruising and doing tiny ollies off little bumps and stuff. I went to the little manny pad and got a manual real quick. I thought for a second I would be skating good and then I couldn’t get a nose manual to save my life. Argh. I hit the ‘driveway’ area with Mackenzie and his crew for a bit. Just riding into front 50 on the downhill part is so fun. I carved the bowl for a bit, didn’t touch coping. Tried to skate the ledge are for a bit, but got embarrassed after a failed noseslide. I had gotten a crooks, wanted to try noseslide 270 shove but I didn’t even get into the noseslide. I went and hit back in the manny pad area. Joe had told me to get a smith grind so I tried a few front smiths on the low part, might have kind of done one. Got a couple slow 50s on the bench. Ended with a good feeling kickflip up the manny pad (it felt good even though it took way too long) and back 180 off. Can’t believe how crowded that park was. Skating around crowds is so hard for me.
(setup null monico 8.38″ deck, venture 5.8, venom 88a 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)