skate journal: dog park again then some shady flatground later (aug 30, 2019)
On a nice morning I went to dog park having the day off work. I got there before Dave L and arranged a mini bank to curb. The black wedge to the back of the stop ledge. It was kinda fun and awkward. I was wearing new shoes, Westgates. Well, I’ve worn them a couple times skating before. They felt surprisingly good. Dave L showed up and we both slowly warmed up. I was more lining out boardslides and the bank to curb. He was doing nollie 180s over a parking blocks. We moved moved the cement ledge that had been against the fence without blocks under it to a good spot again. I was hyped on that. We started linking lines. Dave could easily manual them. That is so rad. I should try to ride on them, but I’m terrified of that. He did back 50 then back 5-0. Pretty unreal line to me, but he was kinda like whatever. I took awhile to get halfcab noseslides. Not sure why, maybe the smaller setup. I did the lines above, they were pretty fun. I think I broke the record for shortest grind on the fakie nosegrind jib. I had gotten the line with the ollie over the wallie barrier. I mean, it wasn’t a clean ollie, but I’m working on it. The footage of this shows me how bad my ollies are. I need to drag the front foot further up to level out the board. So maybe after 30 years of skating I will try to correct my pathetic ollies. I had gotten a few flatground tricks. Heelflip, treflips, halfcab flip, fakie flip and maybe a couple more. I filmed Dave do a cool nollie lip up the parking blocks then a nose manual 180. We left as the sun came in and heated things up a lot and a few people started showing up.
Surprisingly I wasn’t too sore and I wanted to skate some flatground before date night with Liz. So I went in the shaded alley behind the school. Things went a little better than last time. I’m still terribly inconsistent though. It took awhile before I landed anything actually. Jumping is hard. I got the halfcab flip then treflip line. Backside flip, heelflip, the worst f/s halfcab heel done in history, first try f/s halfcab flip, maybe a fakie heel. These Westgates are very comfy, but the board feel leaves a lot to be desired. Not the best flick and not a good heelflip. But a lot can be said about being able to skate 5 hours in a day and not be too sore.
(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 913 Westgates b/w, stock insoles)
(pain level 2/10)