skate journal: breck and frisco with saul, ed and cass (sep 6, 2020)
Trying to avoid the heat I rolled up to Breck with Saul. The park wasn’t too crowded. Warming up was a battle though. I putzed around for a bit, Saul hit the bowl right away. I met up with him after a bit and had some fun lines trying to do 50s with a bit of speed. Saul was slashing the pool coping. After a bit Cass showed. I was bailing a 50 on the granite ledge when Ed showed and was right behind me and yelled “Oh come on you pussy!” Made me laugh so hard. I had gotten a couple super slow crooks and front 50s on it. The height at the end scares me and hurts to land. I really hate the setup for it having to go up the kicker. Oh well. Cass 50’d it good to start. I landed kickflip then fakie flip and thought flatground might be good, but quickly didn’t land anything else. Cass had some nice treflips. He had a really good one on the flyout then we filmed each other for a bit. He got the hardflip in like 5 tries. I got the terrible 3 flip in like 20 tries. Ed and Saul were mostly in the bowl, but I did see Ed snap some clean ollies. I tried to egg Ed on to get a rock ‘n roll in the deep end, but understood when he didn’t want to. We all hit the tiny qp for a bit. Ed had some nice boardslides then back disaster. Cass front board fakie then some fakie trick. I had a boardslide then front disaster. But I spent most of my time trying front smith to front rock. It was a battle, but it was really fun to land one again. Cass had done the blunt to fakie then did it again first try. The annoying yelling in the background was some annoying skate coach dad yelling for their kid that finally landed a backside air in the big bowl.
After some good tacos/burritos we were at Frisco park. I was very sore. I did some of those CARs exercises though and it helped. I did some pumping around the bowl with Saul and Ed. It was more fun than I remember, but still pretty scary at times and full of beginners and scooter kids. I failed at front nosegrinds on the little section again. Front 50s on the curved ledge went alright, but I still felt weird. Cass tried the front noseslide a bunch. He would get it when the camera was out. Ha ha. Ed had some rad early grab airs and close to front smiths. Saul was cruising the tall corners like it was nothing. We did the little transfer pops a couple times. Pretty fun. I enjoyed some crooks on the curved ledge. That was about it I think. Then we celebrated with a couple brews on a gorgeous summer evening.
(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)