skate journal: broomfield park with jake and sean (oct 9, 2020)
TGIF session at Broomfield. I arrived to a crowded park at the same time as Jake, Sean had been there. There were a lot of younger kids skating which was good to see. The quartapotty was crowded so Jake and I had to warm up elsewhere. We did the bump to bar boardslides and some basics on the black ledge. Sean was already past the tailslides and onto nosegrinds. Jake and I did the down rail which was our first time in long time. It felt cool. I had some decent feeling crooks on the black ledge, struggled with some front 50s. Oh yeah, I wore some other shoes since my 212s had died. They were some 379s which I had worn a couple times before and stopped because they hurt. This would be no different. After a while we played on the quartapotty then blue ledge. I had a goal of fakie 50 b/s halfcab out. I would get one in a line with a fakie pivot to fakie. It felt good. Jake got the same line too I think. Sean worked on nollie front 50 180. I also got a line of fakie front smith to fakie (been a long time) and fakie nosegrind. I had also done a disaster revert which I haven’t done in forever and some little nollie back tails and a bad back 50 or two. Jake had blunts both ways, pivot fakie super easy, blunt to fakie. Sean had some fakie front smiths. We tried to add flippers to the lines, but it didn’t work. Then we played a game of SKATE. My heel was hurting bad. Jake missed a few of the basics like fakie flip, heelflip, halfcab flip and was out quick. He went up top and conquered his goal of the pole jam which he did so good. I had also gotten a first try treflip which hasn’t happened in eons and made my day a little better. I forget the other tricks we did. I couldn’t land a fakie bigflip or nollie tre. Sean got me with fakie inward heel, halfcab heel and maybe switch back heel? My foot hurt really bad after that. Fun session.
(setup 8.25 null spanbauer deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.6 v-hollows, venom 91a bushings with roadside washer, 51mm bones stf 103a v1, new balance numeric 379 grey size 11.5, thin rubbery adidas insoles)
(pain level 5/10 heel pain)