skate journal: stubborns working at douglass (sept 14, 2019)
Moving slow on a Saturday morning I went to Douglass to meet the Dave’s, Rob, Kevin and maybe more. I think I got there around the same time as Rob on a warm, but not too hot day. The Dave’s were already putting in work. Dave L was trying a line of kickflip then manual the long narrow ledge. He got it, then tried again, but with a treflip. He got that too, but I think he must be a perfectionist because he kept going at it. Didn’t really get to skate with Dave F since he was filming it all. The rest of us started our warm up process. I haven’t been there in awhile, it’s such a fun spot. I was having fun on the tiny hip in the back that I love doing nollie back bigspins over it. Some “nollie” front tails, super slow 50. Rob was getting the wallie nollies really good. Kevin was setting up a new board, then went right into a line with young kid pop legs. Nosebonk, ollie, wallie. He wanted it filmed, added a back tail and a nollie tre and did it first try. He tried to clean it up a little, but we settled for the first as it was so good. Rob and I had been trying our normal pattern of lines. Something up the curb, something on flat, some ledge action. Rob as crooking the short side of the benches, which was really sick. Also noseslide to fakie. I had started in on a 5 trick line just having fun cruising. Cali grind up the curb, heelflip, curve around to noseslide to fakie the bench, switch front 180 off the curb, nollie shove manual on the speed bump. I think I actually did this before we started filming. Once we started filming I tried it all the same, but with a 180 out of the manual. I would never get it. I tried a lot. Rob got a couple lines to work with too. Back 180, halfcab, crook, noseslide to fakie, shove/no comply shove and a backside flip. I came incredibly close to getting the line. Kevin and Dave L had taken turns filming me. I just missed the 180 out. I was struggling with heelflips too much, so rarely getting far in the line. After all this we called it a day. I thought. Kevin did a cool hippy jump. Dave L tried and did a 360 flip off the narrow ledge after curving around the corner. Pretty crazy. Fun day working hard, I wish I would have gotten the full line. Maybe some other time.
(setup 8.25 null abstract #6 deck, Venture 5.8 titanium trucks with regular stock baseplate, spitfire f4 101a 51mm classic wheels, 3 washers outside each axle, bones medium bushings, new balance numeric 913 westgates b/w, stock insoles)
(pain level 3/10)