skate journal: flatground friday in the street (oct 30, 2020)
Went out to the street on a lunch break around 3 on a gorgeous day. After some recent issues flipping into back 50s or sketchy heelflips I decided to skate my 8″ setup. It took a little getting used to, but it is crazy how quickly my body remembers 10 years of skating 8s. It was probably 10 minutes before I started trying flip tricks. Kickflip and fakie flip were quick. The next trick I landed was fs halfcab heel. Then halfcab flip, heelflip. Took a bit for fakie bigflip, but it was the first one I’ve got in awhile. I did two halfcab heels in a row at one point. I’ve been trying to get that trick better in hopes of getting it to noseslide. I got a third one too and landed a treflip after that! Almost got nollie tre after that which would have made for my techest line ever. Got b/s flip. Was not close to switch or nollie flip. Close to nollie varial and fakie varial flips. Then I needed to get back into work and was getting pretty sore anyway. I liked the 8″. After how bad I’ve been skating ledges lately anyway I kind of don’t want to pretend anymore the bigger board helps with ledges.
(setup old 8″ null logo deck, jessup grip, venture 5.2 v-hollow, bones medium bushings, old bones stf v2 51mm, new balance numeric 212 b/w size 12, es energy foam insoles)
(pain level 3/10 i’ve been realizing that as much as i love those nike insoles they have gotten too thin to use with the 212s)