skate journal: campus with street saul and jake (may 20, 2020)
On a windy night I met Jake and Saul at the meetup curb. We cruised it for a bit. Saul was able to slappy the square part. Jake and I got the little manual bonks. I managed to do a rare front 180 nose manual 180 out aka the twirlybird. I was hyped on that. Then we were off to Baker ledge. The wind was pretty bad at times. I want to blame it for how badly I skated, but clearly there was more. I had some okay manuals and nose manuals, got a 2nd try front 50 then couldn’t ever do it again. That bummed me out so much. Street Saul was trying manuals and slappies on the low part of the ledge. Jake was rifling off tricks. Front 50, front tail, front tail fakie, crooks, noseslide shove, crooks shove, front 5-0 and eventually frontside halfcab noseslide. He had some manuals too, some good no comply 180s off the manny pad and a fakie back tail. I kinda gave up and just tried a line over and over of nose manual then noseslide 270 shove (the hard way) and got kinda close. We left. I was very bummed on how I skated.
(setup 8.5 nolan null deck, ultra grip, venture 5.8 custom hollow cast baseplate titanium hangers, 52mm spitfire green/yellow swirl classic 99a F4, new balance numeric 255 b/w size 12, thin rubbery adidas insole)
(pain level 3/10)