skate journal: actual fun on my skateboard at broomfield with sean (july 9, 2020)
Another hot day. I had decided to put together a new board after all and meet up with Sean at Broomfield park. After a brief warm up for us where Sean was doing flippers and I was doing tricks without popping we started skating the blue bank. Ollie up then no comply shove to fakie was the first trick. Then kickflip to fakie. Obviously Sean’s came way quicker than mine. I kept clipping a little on the ollie up, it was super annoying. Sean was popping up like it was nothing, for me it was such an effort. I would eventually get kickflip to fakie which felt good. Sean did ollie up then started rolling back down before doing a fakie flip. Also heelflip up then kickflip to fakie. I tried rock to kickflip fakie. There was another dude there ruling flip tricks and it hyped me up. He did so many it was ridiculous. Anyway, after quite a few awkward attempts I would get the rock to kickflip fakie and it felt really good. We skated the black ledge after that. Sean was going through his motions, basically every trick within a couple tries until he got to back lip 270 shove out which took a little bit. I did okay, the smaller trucks are weird for grinds. But Sean kept insisting I was skating decent. I got front 50, front 5-0s on accident, switch noseslide 270 shove, crooks, halfcab noseslide. Couldn’t quite get crooks shove and not very close to halfcab noseslide 270 shove. We played a game of SKATE that went pretty well for me even though I was at SKAT off some fakie shoves because I was trying to pop them and failed at double or nothing. But after that I had a few first try tricks like halfacb flip, heelflip and I think treflip which took a huge load off me. I would also go on to get fakie bigflip, nollie tre, f/s halfcab heel, but Sean won it on nollie back heel.
(setup 8.3 null curby deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.2 cast baseplate v-hollow axle, stock bushings no boardside washer, 3 washers inside each axle, bones stf old 53mm pj v1 83b, new balance numeric 288s navy, no insoles)
(pain level 2/10)