I went a little later than normal, got there around 7:30 on a gorgeous night. Will and Rob showed up at the same time. Eric and Jake were already there. Jake landed the first several tricks I saw him do. Like front blunt on the qp, noseblunt the parking block, front 5-0 the black box. After that though I saw him fall a lot. Ha ha. I saw Eric get a back 50 and front tail on the blue ledge then I started my warm up process. It went alright. I was just starting to feel warmed up when Jake and Eric were eying up the 6 stair. I wanted to ollie it too, but Jake went and did it right then. I wasn’t motivated and the opportunity seemed gone. Eric was doing heelflips and sizing up the rail. Will was getting on the grinds. Rob had a couple odd falls early on. We played a game of SKATE. Rob came out swinging. No comply 360, back 360, backside flip. I was at SKA just like that. I had a good string when I had another turn though. Kickflip, heelflip, treflip, halfcab flip in a row. That made me really happy. Especially the treflip. It was kind of a dick move, but I really wanted to try one and I got lucky. Oh yeah, ha ha, Jake went out on kickflip. He missed the first, went for double or nothing, missed again, then went for triple or nothing and slammed on that one. That was insult to injury and he was out. Will and I were the last two and I bailed a couple fakie bigflips and he took me out with switch shove. I did some frontside flips on the hump which I haven’t done in awhile which were fun. Eric and I battled the little boardslide, then got them back to back. He tried the 6 stair one too, but never got it. I saw Rob almost nose manual around the mountain bank, but it was hard seeing what others were doing until I mostly skated the black ledge. Will was skating it too. He was trying back tail then switch back tail, the switch one eluded him. Jake had left. Rob and Eric were chilling. I tried to get a new trick on the black ledge for me, fakie nosegrind. It took like 100 line attempts to get there, but I did get a fakie nosegrind and it did feel rad. Will was trying switch nose manual. This dude Max was there with a total 90s setup and it was awesome. He was fun to skate with. Will started trying to back nosegrind the sad ledge. It made me want to back 50 it, which meant a line to it to try and get hyped. I started with kickflip the parking block, frontside tricks on the qp (got a front tail for the first time in awhile). But I was having trouble committing. Got a line to it eventually and back 50’d about a third of it. It felt cool. The line was back 180 the parking block, fakie axle stall, back 50. I probably did 15 kickflips over the parking block which felt great. Will never got the back nosegrind, but he was close. I ended trying some slow kick back 50s on the blue ledge. The first set of lights shut off, but left enough light to keep trying. A few tries later I got one. It was slow, but it felt great. This was some of the hardest I’ve skated in awhile. It felt great. I love summer.
(setup 8.38 null perception deck, indy 149 ray barbee trucks, oj 52mm ez edge insane-a-thane wheels, bones medium bushings, es accel slim navy/white asta size 12, footprint gamechanger low profile insole)
