skate journal: basketball courts in the cold (april 11, 2019)
On a cold Thursday night I went to the basketball court ledges after dinner. No one was playing when I got there and I struggled through some warm up motions. Then some kids came to play ball and were kind enough to give me the ledge side of the court. I couldn’t get the switch front nose as I had in the past. I got to a point where I tried one line over and over until I got it. Noseslide to fakie, fakie flip, halfcab noseslide. I was happy to land most of my fakie flips. I was having a lot of trouble jumping hight enough to get on the ledges proper though. I got wheelbite a lot. It was annoying. I did another line of front nose to fakie, switch 180, front board. Eventually I worked up the courage to try front 50 a barely waxed section of the ledge. It took a lot of tries, but one came out of nowhere. It was terrible and I didn’t grind, but I was happy to get on it. I would get a better one later. Then I went up to the bump. Did a few laps trying to do big ollies, but never really even snapped the tail well. This was the first time I was really missing the quick snap of a low truck. Because I couldn’t ollie I decided to kickflip. I think it would have been less scary had there not been snow surrounding the spot. I got a couple really bad kickflips. I had one that landed good on the downhill, but I shot out. It was still fun to kickflip there even if I didn’t do it clean.
(setup 8.5″ null lazer deck, venture ftc 5.8s v-lights, doh dohs bushings (blue 88a barrel boardside one, yellow 92a roadside) no boardside washer, bones stf v1 pj 53mm wheels with all washers on the outside, new balance numeric 379 all black size 12, super thin adidas insoles)
(pain level 3/10)