skate journal: flatground frustration and a trick for dave (april, 22, 2020)
On a cooler day I went out for skate lunch again armed with a 11×11 list. I did a few slappies then went up to the designated flatground area and started flipping (out). I got kickflip first try, then took a bit to get another. I almost lost my mind trying to get a fakie flip which took 10 tries. And it wasn’t even on the list, just a warm up trick. Argh, at least halfcab flip warm up only took a couple tries. Then it was off to the list:
fakie bigflip – couldn’t do this. Came so close to focusing my board. This is normally so easy for me. The terrible one I got was like 20th try.
heelflip – Got a worse one first try, then that epic rocket heel pretty quick to calm me down a little.
halfcab heel – not even close
nollie varial flip – finally landed on it, but couldn’t ride away.
treflip – got a few, but all were terrible.
nollie big flip – not even close
varial heel – kinda close. I gave up on the list after this, it was too tough
switch bs flip
switch heel
fakie treflip
nollie inward heel
Then I went down do the original straight curb and tried switch front tail. I probably got closer to rolling my ankle than landing the trick. It’s my turn to give Dave a trick in our ongoing game of SKATE so I wanted to do switch front tail. Oh well. I gave up and remembered Dave saying he hadn’t done kickflip axle stall. I know he can do it and want to see it so I went for that. I got a few questionable ones before getting a good feeling one. Back to work.
(setup 8.25 null curby deck, venture 5.8 titanium, doh dohs 88a boardside bushing no washer minilogo 94a roadside flat washer, 53mm purple swirl blank wheels, 3 speed washers on the outside of each axle, new balance numeric 288s jack curtain size 11.5, no insoles, incrediwear knee sleeve)
(pain level 4/10)