skate journal: commerce city with kevin, cass and wade (sept 5, 2020)
Posted in Skate Journal on September 5th, 2020 by corpoOn a hot morning I met Cass and Kevin at Commerce City park. It’s been a few years since I’ve been there. Wade would show a little later. After some flailing around we settled in on treflips for a warm up after Cass did a couple in a row. Kevin was second to get one after some kickflips too. They moved on to other tricks while I kept trying treflips. I would eventually get one that would maybe count as defense if I was 60. Cass also got bigflip, b/s flip, hardflip, heelflip. Kevin switch flilp, nollie bs flip, janoski flip. I added fs halfcab flip. That’s it. Ha ha. Wade showed around now. We mainly just hit the two ledges in a row when we kids on bikes or laying down on skateboards weren’t in the way. I took awhile to get comfortable on the ledges. I kept doing front 5-0s instead of 50s. It was funny. I would get a few alright lines for me though. Switch front nose then fakie nosegrind. front 5-0 then nollie front tail. Crooks then back 50. Front 50 and front 5-0 shoves then switch noseslide 270 shove. Close to crooks then kick back 50 or 5-0. Wade has good style. He was doing 50s super solid, front blunts, back tails. Cass had some 3 flips out of the wedges, fakie nosegrinds, front tails, front noses. Kevin nollie nosegrind, switch crooks, kick back tail, back 50 and crooks the longer ledge with the drop, switch front 5-0 and probably much more. Kevin was the last to get his line and by then it was 97 so we sat in the shade for a bit then I went to 303 and Emage. Fun earlyish skate.
(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 3/10)