skate journal: campus pain and struggles (july 21, 2020)
On a warm night I went to campus about an hour before sunset. I had thought of the stadium bank and all of these flip tricks I wanted to do there. So you know what that means right? That I wouldn’t be able to land anything. I had done a few warm ups before struggling pretty bad with kickflip to fakie, b/s flip, f/s flip and fakie flip. Then I just went for treflip. Over and over with no luck. At one point my foot started hurting so bad. I am going to give up on vulcanized shoes again, they are so painful. The only good that came from it was hucking a f/s cab heelflip and getting remotely close. When it got too dark I moved on and was surprised at how dark so many spots were. I ended up at the hidden ledge with no runway and tried Dave’s challenge until I got it. It took 9 minutes, 38 seconds. ha. I tried front 50 for a white. I was pretty close when a bunch of bugs started roaming around on the ledge and my stupid hippy self didn’t want to hurt them. So I moved on .. to the car. Bummer of a night.
(setup 8.25 null curby deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.2 awake lows, bones medium bushings, 3 washers inside each axle, 1/16″ riser, 51mm spitfire F4 101a radial slims, new balance numeric foy b/w/y size 12, nike sb zoom air insole)
(pain level 5/10)