skate journal: new rhino spot with kevin doing ride on grinds (jan 16, 2021)
Picked up Kevin then we hit this new spot. Basically the area is a skatepark. We looked at all the park had to offer then went in on the cali/ride on grinds which were way harder than they looked. Kevin got one first. I kind of got one a million tries later and he had already gone over to the double orange ledges. I had gotten a couple kickflips that felt really good and I thought to myself “never again skating 8.5” (yeah right). Then we tried our lines. That was fun. Kevin literally landed like 20/21 nollie flips even on my board. There were a bunch of others skating, everyone was nice. One dude had an amazing treflip. The lines took awhile. I had one kickflip where I squated extra low and almost couldn’t get up from it. I thought my knees would be done after that, but they kept going. After getting our lines Kevin did the snake run to ride on grind. It took him a long time, but he got it. Then we called it a day. It was nice to not completely hate myself for the first time in a few days.
(setup 303 8.25 deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.6 (cast baseplate v-hollow hanger), bones medium bushings, spitfire 52mm 99a tablets, new balance numeric 212 mustard size 11.5, footprint mid elite insoles)
(pain level 4/10)