skate journal: dog park flatground with jake on a nice sunday (march 25, 2018)
Feeling very sore I met up with Jake around noon at the Dog Park. Warming up wasn’t great. Jake was doing lines over the cone. Ollies, front 180s and halfcabs. I had a first try heelflip, but struggled to ollie the cone. Jake and I started a game of SKATE. But he broke his deck on a frontside flip make. So while he setup a new board that he had in the car I went for the cone ollie. Took quite a few tries, but I did get it and it felt awesome. Then we resumed our game. With added grip Jake was now able to get 360 flip (ha ha Jake). At one point I was up SK – SKAT with tricks like halfcab flip, heelflip, fakie flip, but he tied it up with a fakie 360 shove and something else. We both wanted to end on fakie tre, but gave up after awhile and tried some random tricks. Too my surprise I got a halfcab heel which Jake had never even tried before. It’s a rare thing for me to actually win against Jake so that was cool. Then we just kind of went slow trying new or rare tricks. Jake wanted a heelflip and wanted to learn fakie varial flip, but never quite got either. I don’t think I put down anything either even though I came close to an awful lot. Was most bummed on how I couldn’t land a 360 flip or nollie 360 flip. Oh well. That was it for skating, felt good to only skate for an hourish.
(setup 8.125″ null maze deck, venture 5.25 awake lows, 52mm bones stf v3, bones medium bushings, new balance numeric 255 blue size 12, pinnacle powerstep orthotic insole)