skate journal: red hawk at night with dave (july 23, 2020)
On a nice night I met Dave at Red Hawk with about an hour of sunlight left. I had new shoes. Another pair of the cupsole 288s. They felt alright. Much less pain than the 306 vulcs, but also less grip. Anyway the warm up wasn’t too bad for me. I got into my basics pretty quick and was doing a bit more flippers than normal. Had a couple good feeling halfcab flips and front 50s. Dave was doing some long front noseslides, manuals on the rock, etc. I would land on a few tricks, but not really land anything I was overly happy with. Got close to nollie varial flip, nollie tre, front 5-0 shove, kick back 50/5-0. I kind of got a front smith. Dave had such a good front 50 back 180. He also got into some front crooks which I haven’t seen him try in awhile. He also ended on such a good line of noseslide shove then back 50 nollie shove.
(setup 8.25 null curby deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.2 awake lows, venture yellow bushings, 3 washers inside each axle, 1/16″ riser, 51mm spitfire F4 101a radial slims, new balance numeric 288s grey/blue size 11.5, no insoles)
(pain level 3/10)