skate journal: dog park pain (april 25, 2021)
Had a couple hours free on my anniversary so I went to the dog park. Kevin, Dan and Collin were there. I had thought my body would loosen up after a hike, but it didn’t. I was so much more sore than I thought and could barely slappy or anything. It was rad seeing Dan he was shredding as always. The back nosegrind pop out was great. I didn’t see much of what Collin did unfortunately. Kevin raved about a new trick he had done then demonstrated it – nollie back 180 nosegrind on the top of a cinder block ledge which was on the ground. I was starting to feel maybe a little warmed up though, boardslides, crooks, noseslides when Kevin asked me to film him. It took awhile and I was too sore after. Sean joined and killed it immediately. Front nosegrind followed by nollie back nosegrind shove. I managed a crook on the cinder block ledge then front board the new bench for my only remote satisfaction of the day. If I had known I was actually that sore I wouldn’t have tried to skate.
(setup 8.38 null smoke valley, jessup ultragrip, 5.6 ventures hollow axle 3 washers on the inside of each axle, spitfire 51mm green slag radial 99a f4, new balance numeric 212 size 12 nike sb zoom air insoles)
(pain 8/10)