skate journal: steel yards desperation (may 8, 2019)
Posted in Skate Journal on May 9th, 2019 by corpoOn a rainy night I forced myself to go skate a parking garage. I wasn’t really sure where I would end up, but it ended up being the Steelyards. I waxed the curb along the sidewalk and starting trying lines to get my rusty soreness going. First real one was front 50, back 180, fakie bigspin. Another was pop shove, back 50, go around then nollie back 180 off the curb. Then front 5-0, kickflip, wallie nollie. This one was surprised me. Halfcab flip, back 50 back 180 out (done horribly though), switch front 180 off the curb. Then I got more into huck mode as I was warmed up enough to have the motivation to try single tricks. I couldn’t quite get a switch crook. Couldn’t get close to front shove back 50. Had a couple f/s halfcab flips, hucked a few fakie lazer flips and they felt doable. Around then a security car rolled in and I took about 5 tries to get a treflip and left when he asked me to.
(setup 8.75″ null valley deck, venture ftc 5.8s, doh dohs bushings (blue 88a barrel boardside one, yellow 92a roadside), spitfire f4 radials 52mm blue/yellow swirl wheels with 3 washers on the inside, new balance numeric 379 tan/gum size 12, fp 5mm insoles with heelpad)
(pain level 4/10 knee)