This last week was insane for video parts. I didn’t think anything would top Austyn, JP Souza ripped too, then I thought nothing could top Griffin Gass, Deedz was up there, everyone loves Louie, but I’m sorry, nothing can touch this PJ clip. He is on fire, skating as well as ever. As a long time PJ fan I think this is one of his best clips EVER. Dude is skating hard and having fun.
After work I chilled a minute then rolled across the street for an old guy friday curbs session. I was the first one there. I did a few warm ups, some fun slappies, 180s, etc. Rob and Dave showed at the same time. Jake drove there ha ha. Saul a little later then Dave L. Rad crew. I skated pretty good for me. I did a lot of lines starting with front shove or kickflip off the curb. First one was front shove, slappy front crook, kickflip off the curb cut to parking lot. I couldn’t do it up the cut, but off worked. I tried kickflip off, nollie front tail or slappy front feeble then b/s flip off the curb cut, but never got the b/s flip. I couldn’t get a f/s halfcab heel. I got a really bad/slow fakie bigspin off the curb. Near the end I hucked a front heel, it felt close so I hucked another and landed it! Not sure if I’ve ever done that trick before, but it felt great even though I had some good heel touch. I got kind of close to switch slappy front crooks. Rob ripped. Slappy crooks, back 50s, back 5-0s, back 180s, bean plants, close to no comply to manual. Saul had some nice slappies on the raw curbs, slappies over the death box, feeble on the downhill two sides section, front slappies, ripping. Dave L mostly skated the upper section and was trying to piece together switch front shove, fakie bigspin then nollie lip the two sided section. Dave F gives Creager a run for the money on slappy crooks, definitely takes the cake with switch crooks. A really good sex change, switch ollies up the curb, cab off and some switch back 180 5-0s!!!! Wow. Jake lined out a kickflilp out of the curb cut with f/s halfcab into a curb cut, slappy crooks then the kickflip. Also slappy blunt, front slappies, slappy crooks and told me he would never get another letter on a heelflip. Mark his words, Sept 4 2020 “I will not get another letter on heelflips” ha ha.
(setup 8.38 null plant life deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.8 92 custom hollow baseplate, stock bushings, 54mm spitfire f4 99a radials red/yellow swirl, new balance numeric 306 foy b/w size 12, thin 533 insoles)
(pain level 4/10)
On another warm day I went to dog park right after work. There were a few people when I got there, but not anything like the day before. And it cleared out actually to the point where it was just me and one other person skating. Crazy. But for awhile it was popping a bit. Eric showed up after I had been there a bit. I skated alright, not great, but nothing to get upset about. I had a few flippers early. Heelflip, halfcab flip, fakie bigflip, backside flip, couldn’t get treflip though. Once again I couldn’t really focus on anything in particular and was enjoying the less crowded park doing lines. Got kind of close to crooks on the metal butter ledge followed by nosegrind on the little metal lurb. Eric showed around then. He was on some front tails, 5-0s, heelflips quick. He committed to heelflip back 50 on the little guy and got on it, but wasn’t locked in. Still sick. We did crooks on the tall side of the black ledge. I would also get crooks to fakie on it which was my one improvement of the day. Eric left. The park was almost empty at that point so I couldn’t get myself to leave. I tried no comply flips on the parking block until I got one. Then did a little hucking. Kick back tails on the little guy. Almost got into a couple. Got a slow switch front nose shove in a few tries, switch noseslide 270 shove first try. Super close to switch flips. It was fun ending the session hucking trying to learn stuff.
(setup 8.38 null plant life deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.8 92 custom hollow baseplate, stock bushings, 54mm spitfire f4 99a radials red/yellow swirl, new balance numeric 306 foy b/w size 12, thin 533 insoles)
(pain level 4/10)