skate journal: crowded square house madness (dec 4, 2018)
Posted in Skate Journal on December 6th, 2018 by corpo
Cold night. Went to Square House with plans to meet Dave and Brian there. When I arrived I was the only one there. I was pretty hyped, although my first few cruises around the park were terrible. I slammed pretty bad on a cab kickturn. Argh. Then Uriel and a few dudes showed followed shortly by another crew of skaters. I mostly skated the ledge for a bit, got a few crooks, stuck on front 50s. Uriel had no problem back nosegrinding it though. I started skating the miniramp for awhile and finally Dave and Brian showed. Along with Dave L and Skate Ratz Bryan. Cool. My bigger setup has been under fire lately, but I must admit it was nice on the ramp. That ramp is hard to skate and I haven’t skated a ramp in awhile, but it was fun. Back 50s are always a blast. I got a couple other of my basics, but couldn’t get front lipslides. Dave was happy to see his old ramp again and quickly went to ripping it. Then we hit the mellow bank, manual pad, quarterpipe area for a awhile. Dave was grinding over the smaller qp and doing fakie shoves on the mellow bank. Dave L was doing fast Gino style manuals, nose manuals and switch manuals. I took a long time to get kickflip to fakie on the mellow bank. It was much harder than you would think because of the navigation around it. But the couple I got felt fun and I followed one up with a little bean plant. And I almost got killed by Donnie on his first line through the park. I hit the step up for awhile. Got sketchy kickflip and backside flip. I couldn’t tell if the bigger setup was helping me or hurting. It was hard to flip, but easy to land on. That was basically it for me as my body was having some unusual aches and pains. Brian had been ripping the ramp and then was doing a doubles with Donnie seen above. Bryan had some cool tricks like fakie bigspin tail 270 shove out. Dave was still killing it and was transferring from the steep little qp into the ramp, front pivot on the edge of the middle qp, back 5-0s on the little qp, etc. Fun night. I’m still undecided on the bigger setup.
(setup null 8.5 perception deck, 5.8 venture black icon trucks, doh doh bushings (yellow top, blue bottom) bushings, 2 washers inside each axle, spitfire f4 radial blue/yellow swirl 52mm 99a wheels, new balance numeric 212 black/white size 11.5, stock insoles)
(pain level 7/10 i appear to be having an arthritis flare up ugh)