skate journal: depression morning sessions douglass and louisville (aug 6, 2020)
Did another morning skate since I work late. I went to Douglass since it was cloudy. I wanted to skate mostly flat and a little ledges. But there were some landscapers there. They didn’t ask me to leave, but it was weird. I went to the side and messed around briefly. Did a couple creepy spins over the micro hip. A nollie front tail or two. No 50s. Then a dude came to whack some weeds so I went back to the front. It was weird still so I just did a few noseslides and crooks, failed a few 50s then left.
Went to Louisville park. When I pulled in it looked like the skatepark was empty. But it turns out a bunch of young scooter kids had been eating and were unleashed on the park the same time the sun came out. Ugh. These annoying kids would not look or anything and say “dropping” before every movement. I did a few kickflips to fakie on the bank. They were scary because half the time a scooter kid would be behind me not knowing I wasn’t doing a flyout. I did a few front 50s, a couple with shoves. Flailed back 5-0s for a bit on the little ledge. Then left after some old guy pulled his car up blasting some really bad pop music.
(setup 8.25 null archway deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.2 custom hollow AWAKE lows, bones hard bushings, 51mm spitfire 101a F4 classic shape, 3 washers inside each axle, new balance numeric 212 b/w/yellow size 12, new balance abzorb insole)
(pain level 4/10 started getting some of that knee pain i get when wearing vulcs argh)