skate journal: frisco park with rob, neil, ollie then buena vista with fremonsters too (july 8, 2021)
Ollie and I got to Frisco park around 11, chilled for a bit then Rob and Neil showed up too. The park was pretty empty and it’s funny because of all the skaters that showed up everyone basically skated the street section only. The scooters and strider kids were attracted to the moonscape pumptrack so I guess that’s a good distraction to keep them out of the good stuff. So much skating has occurred after this that it’s really hard to remember. Luckily there was some filming so there’s that. I was definitely thrown off with the new shoes. Ollie skated quite a bit which was cool. He stuck with fakie front shoves and front 180s, maybe some manuals too. Rob was shredding. Bean plant and no comply shove over the A-frame, back 50s manuals and nose manuals on the little manny pad, was hyped to see him kickflip the bank, first try boardslide the down rail. I skated okay, but not great. Kickflip on the bank took awhile, couldn’t nosegrind the little ledge, struggled with crooks, didn’t get fakie nosegrind, had some fun kickflips out of the little bump, finally front 50 the little downhill ledge, couldn’t get the front shove off the wedge and my happiest moment was first try noseslide down the rail. I haven’t boardslid a down rail in a long time, but I guess it’s more of a ledge. I was still hyped though. Neil’s ollies are just so good it’s great to watch. Pop shove the A-frame, no complies on the bank, manuals and nose manuals the pad, front 50s, looking good.
Then we went to Buena Vista to meet the Nebraska crew which was Dan, Joe, Eric, Matt and Richard. Man it was great seeing them. We would get interrupted by rain at times, but skated for a couple/few hours. This is impossible to remember everything. Neil was ollieing up the euro, cruising, one foots, kickflips out of the bank. Joe went in on a line of kickflip out of the bank, rock ‘n roll the qp, front 50 to tail the weird ledge. He would get it, but he paid on a couple slams. Luckily his ankle was okay. Dan did some cool manuals variations from the miniramp to the park and back, then a front board to switch 50 then ride in the qp on the weird ledge to qp. Eric rock fakied the weird euro qp. I skated it with him and tried a bunch of axle stalls before getting it first try a camera was brought out. Ha. Also got rock ‘n rolls. I couldn’t get a halfcab flip on the bank. Then Eric and I tried tricks out of the mellower bank for awhile. He went shove it which he’s only done once and would get it. I couldn’t get a treflip and ended up losing my temper. Ugh. I put too much weight on that trick. Matt was shredding, but I can’t remember a trick. Rob had some stylee f/s grinds on the qp. Richard b/s flipped over the rainbow rail second try and then crook, feeble and front board the rail. I wish I would have just landed a treflip instead of losing my mind, but it was still a fun session and I was happy those dudes were visiting again.
(setup 8.25 null spanbauer pro deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.6 cast baseplate with riptides v-hollow hanger, 3 washers inside each axle, venom 88a big bushing 91a small bushing, spitfire f4 99a 50mm classic shape, es swift b/w size 11.5 no insoles)
(pain level 4/10)