skate journal: crestview, wallie pad and dentist 5 stair hammerfest (sept 29, 2018)
Posted in Skate Journal on October 1st, 2018 by corpoKevin showed up and we went to meet Sean and Crestview, but we missed him. Doh. We played around anyway. I was feeling really weird, maybe it had to do with the cold morning quickly warming up. But I literally didn’t feel up to ollieing up a curb even. Kevin was doing crooks and 50s right away. Actually pretty quickly he was trying a line and I was filming it. Nollie tre, boardslide pop transfer up the curb, front blunt. It didn’t come easy. In fact I told my friend Cass whoe lives in Denver where we were skating and he was able to drive all the way to the spot and Kevin was still trying the line. He did get it though and it came out really good. Cass even got a homie clip with front 50 shove. Dave showed up and warmed up too as I rewarmed up. Dave did a bunch of 50s. Cass smoked a lot of cigs. Kevin went in between chilling and ripping. I saw a tall cone and decided to get some classic Glen footage. Basically a couple tricks and then run into it basically. It came out pretty good.
Then we went to the weird wallie to manny that Dave wanted to do. I wasn’t really feeling it so I just wallie nollie’d a mailbox. Cass and Kevin tried too, but couldn’t quite get it. Dave would get it and it was smooth like butter.
Then we went to the dentist 5 since we were right there. I was super sore and stiff and couldn’t even attempt to ollie it at first. Dave ollied it first try to show up Kevin who took a few tries to ride away from it. Cass had left. Kevin went to Liquormart, Dave and I were missing around trying to line things out when a carload of high school age skaters pulled up. Dave and I were initially bummed (maybe embarrassed), but these ended up being really cool. Shortly after they showed both Dave an I got some lines. Mine was front 180 up the curb, halfcab flip on flat, ollie the 5. I forget Dave’s, but it involved a varial flip and an ollie down the 5 stair. The kids were pretty nice, but hucked a couple tricks then mostly just sat there. Kevin had come back and we were feeling it. Dave left, the kids left, but Kevin and I alternated filming each other hurt ourselves. I was trying no comply shove up the curb, front shove down the 5. Kevin was trying heelflip up, nollie b/s flip down. I never quite committed to landing it. It was a bummer. The last one I tried I just dove to the ground and curled up in a ball in pain. It’s only a 5 stair, but I probably humped down it 10-12 times which was about 5 times too many. Kevin switched to hardflip down the 5 and came closer, but didn’t get his line either. We both were incredibly sore, and Kevin put an end to his chipped board.
(setup 8.25 null lazer deck, venture 5.25 awake lows, bones medium bushings, 3 washers inside each axle, 51mm v1 bones stf wheels, new balance numeric brown 212s size 11.5, footprint flat 5mm insoles)
(pain level 5/10)