DeBobby’s part is probably the “best” from the week. He kills it. His flatground is insane.

This part is a few weeks old, but I just saw it. I have never heard of this dude. He is a skate rat weirdo and I absolutely love everything about this.

And then there is Tony Hawk doing 50 gnarly tricks for turning 50. Inspiring stuff.

Rain was threatening, but didn’t hit and the sun came out as Rob and I started at this fun looking curb. Dave joined shortly after. This curb looks fun right? Well, it was, but it wasn’t easy. The cracks in the brick are large, the foot traffic a bit much at times. But we skated and struggled on it for quite awhile. In the end everyone came away with something good, but there was quite a bit of struggling. Rob was on the back 50s right away. Dave struck next with a front 50 on the start then front board on the end. Rob had a nice hurricane after awhile, Dave front hurricane or maybe it’s not a hurricane since he came out forward. I basically didn’t do anything except some slow front 50s, a tiny switch crook jib and then in the end got a trick I was hyped on. Switch front noseslide shove out. By “slide” I mean about 1 inch. I was still happy though. Rob added some switch front nose, front tailslides, front tail to fakie. Dave’s banger was front 50 back 180 out. So good. About the photos, I really only tried a couple times to get photos and this is what happened. I feel they are a pretty accurate summary of the spot. Ha.

We moved on into the alley behind the place. Dave and I started playing on this weird bank contraption. Rob took off. Dave was trying nollie in and making it around this weird corner without holding onto the rail. I did a no comply front shove to fakie on the lower part of it then started trying kickflip to fakie. This is when a couple dudes that used to skate came over and started talking, wanting to borrow our boards, etc. Dave and I would get our tricks. We messed around some more and one dude showed us some footage of him in the late 90s that was pretty sick. We told him to buy a board and get back on it.

Then we skated this curb that Rob found. It’s really good. I struggled. Dave and I both started with nollie front lips. Dave did a nollie back lip too, then regular front lips. I was busy working on a more technical trick like back 50. Ha. It took awhile. Then I tried to line out a kickflip off a bump in the sidewalk then a back 5-0. Got close once, but I kept missing or bailing the grind and my trucks were bumming me out. Thunders suck. No matter how good they seem on paper. I did get a log of kickflips though which felt fun. Dave was trying slappy feebles to 270 out and getting oh so close, but they were falling into boardslides before the 270. I tried some front nosegrinds too, but didn’t get close. Dave closed it with a front 50 nollie shove out. Fun spot. As much as we struggled it still felt good to street skate. Not landing much in the streets is still more rewarding than an average park session.

(setup 8.25 null monico deck, thunder 148s with super old forged baseplate, 51mm bones stf v1, 3 washers on the inside of each axle, 91a venom bushings, es swift 1.5 grey size 11.5, footprints gamechanger lite insoles)