skate journal: short and fun one at saul’s (april 25, 2018)
Feeling pretty sore after work I stopped by Saul’s a little early for the session. It was just Saul and I for awhile. My first couple runs were terrible and kind of scary. I felt so off for some reason. Not the case for Saul though. He would end up laying into some back smiths (can’t wait until he starts riding away from those), back 5-0s, back 50s on the gnar coping. For whatever reason I started going frontside on the wall after the carve grind and it was fun. I would end up getting maybe my best feeling run there yet. Carve grind, front slash the shallow, axle stall the deep then almost front disaster the shallow. Wow, sounds like nothing, but it was fun. I had to go celebrate 20 years of marriage with Liz, but quite a fun crew of dudes showed up. Will, Ed, Jake, Josh and someone I’ve never met before doing the grind in the photo. Fun little session.
(setup 8.38 null monico deck, venture black icon 5.8 trucks, bones medium bushings, 51mm bones stf v1 wheels, 3 washers outside each axle, new balance numeric 212 size 11 with footprints gamechanger orthotic insoles)