skate journal: broomfield tuesday on a nice night (may 15, 2018)
Posted in setup change, Skate Journal on May 16th, 2018 by corpo
After some terrible traffic I arrived at Broomfield park and quite a few people were already there. Rob was holding it down for the Stubborns. Donnie, Garrett, Riley, Sean, some dude named Stefan that was friends with Riley I thought. There was a bunch of people there. Scooter kids, bikers, other skaters. It was hard to get in it. Donnie had turned up Motorhead rather loud on his speaker which was funny because everyone at the batting cages had to listen to it. It’s hard to say who was doing what for awhile because there was so much going on it was hard to see beyond what you were doing. I kept it kind of mellow knowing it would be less crazy in an hour or so. Spent a little time filming (the sunny clips). Rob’s back lips were so sick. Garrett’s nosegrind shove was a thing of beauty. Donnie was all over the place and obnoxious about it. I haven’t seen Riley in awhile so that was a treat. And Sean wow. Back lip front shove so good. I was kind of all over not really focusing on anything. Got a fakie nose jib, couldn’t back 50, then went for the ol’ Texas Plant which I finally did when the camera was on. Oh yeah, at one point the session was mellow and Rob did like a 20 trick line. It started with back 50 back 180 on the blue ledge, fakie nosegrind the escalator ledge. Then something on the black ledge, b/s flip on flat, front tail on the blue ledge, front shove and more tricks I”m not remembering. I was pretty tired and played a game of SKATE with Garrett and Stefan which was pretty fun. Got a heelflip, landed on 360 shove, got a letter on nollie tre, and lost on b/s flip. Garrett’s b/s flip was so perfect. Then I just filmed Donnie work himself to get the f/s flip. Fun session.
Okay, so a little setup OCD that was going on. I wanted a bigger board with a bigger wheelbase all night. I had also been obsessed over the fact that Indy’s have a smaller wheelbase and thought it might help with a large board. At one point I rode Garrett’s board and quickly confirmed how little I wanted to ride Indys. Granted he’s got the young kid hipster loose trucks, but man they felt beyond terrible to me. Ventures for life I guess. Or at least until I try something else next week.
(setup 8.25 null monico deck, venture 5.8 black icon trucks, 51mm bones stf v1, 3 washers on the outside of each axle, bones medium bushings, es swift 1.5 grey size 11.5, footprints gamechanger lite insoles)