skate journal: dog park yet again (aug 29, 2019)
Another nice night I went to dog park after dinner. I would be meeting Donnie, Dave and Saul. I got there first. It was crowded again. So crazy to think at one time I used to just go there to escape and skate by myself. Tonight I did not feel as good or motivated. I kinda putzed around for awhile not really doing anything. Donnie was trying layback front rocks on the vert wall. Saul showed and quickly carved the vert wall then ollied off the medium kicker. I was impressed. Street Saul came out more with some back 50s on the ground cement ledge. I was trying the Kevin trick, switch nosegrind 180. Dave joined me for a bit when he showed. Well this is after he told me to do a rock fakie first try on the bigger bank. Got it. Then it was kinda everyone on their own for awhile. It’s hard to skate my favorite ledge now. Even when you think your alone as soon as you go to ollie you hear someone hit the kicker behind you and it’s annoying. I did nothing new. I did try a couple front shoves off the kicker, close to kick back 50 the step, almost fakie tre. Saul boardslid a ledge. Dave was lining out the beam with the china bank. He did a switch crook to fakie at one point. Unreal. Donnie had a cool line with boardslide the barrier, kickflip to fakie the bank, switch boardslide the barrier. At the end Dave and I played SKATE under the one light. It started incredibly bad for me and I was down SKA to nothing quick. The lighting was my excuse. I forget the tricks. Dave beat me to halfcab flip, but I finally got it on defense. I mounted a little comeback with heelflip and varial flip I think? Dave got a fakie flip which hyped me up. I got another letter on a back 360 and I couldn’t even do it without having to pop. Dave got me in the end with a sex change. I did land it in a few tries after the game though. Glad we finished with the game of SKATE even though it was pretty tough for me at the start.
(setup 8.25 null abstract #6 deck, venture 5.6 v-lights, spitfire f4 101a 51mm classic wheels, 3 washers inside each axle, bones medium bushings, new balance numeric 868s black/gum, stock insoles)
(pain level 3/10)