skate journal: little arvada then darin’s on a nice dec day (dec 15, 2018)
Met around 1pm on a nice, but a little breezy day at the little arvada park, aka triple nipple. I haven’t been there in a long time, so long in fact that the newly paved parking lot made me think I had drove to the wrong place. Kevin, Jack and Carleigh were there already along with some of the other girl crew. I started on the mellow top qp for awhile, got a few basics, it’s a fun qp. Carleigh did a back blunt on it. So sick. Then I played the ledge game with Kevin and Jack. Kevin was trying fakie back nosegrind, Jack was trying nollie back 180 switch front crook (or maybe just call it a Suciu trick). Both got close, but moved on. Rob would show after awhile. Kevin and Jack were rattling off trick after trick on the ledge. Kevin had kick back tail! Jack was doing 8 foot long back tails, front tail 270 shove, pop shove nosegrind, so many tricks. I did a couple basics and forced myself to try back 50. I got into a couple at least, but it was slow and I came to a halt. But I was still happy to have made myself try. I got a halfcab noseslide and struggled with some front 50s. My highlight was a fakie 50 f/s halfcab out then a front 50 shove. Rob was flowing manuals, boardslides, noseslides. Carleigh was getting close to back disaster. I left for Darin’s while Jack was trying a line of back tail, nosepick, back 180 nosegrind 180 out.
Then we went to Darin’s. Well, just Kevin and I. There was a crew there. Adam, Craig, Dave and Darin. Most of them were trying a line that had started with add a trick that was like 20 tricks long. It looked exhausting. I think Craig was the only one go get it. Kevin rips miniramps. Blunt fakie, switch flip, long front 5-0s and lipslides. I didn’t do much, even bailed some axle stalls. I should probably skate ramps more.
(setup null 8.25 lazer deck, 5.8 venture black icon trucks, bones bushings (medium big bottom one, hard small top one), no washers inside each axle, bones 51mm stf v1 pj wheels, new balance numeric 212 black white size 11.5, stock insoles)
(pain level 4/10 bottom of the foot pain)