skate journal: 20th st DIY round 2 with Joe (July 19, 2021)
I arrived at 20th St at 8am and Joe arrived shortly after. Warming up didn’t really go well so we played a game of SKATE. Other than Joe winning it was a fun warm up. Ha. I was unhappy to get a letter on a halfcab flip, but other than that it went alright for me. Then we mostly skated the main ledge. Joe was popping into grinds before me but when I got his back on a front 50 shove I knew it was a good day. Joe went on to get a bunch of his tricks. I got some accidental 5-0s, something that resembled a back 50 and other basics. I kind of ollied a cone. Joe 50d all the rails. I had a fun line of switch front nose, fakie flip, fakie smith fakie the qp. I tried treflips for awhile and got a bad one, then followed it up with crooks to fakie on the ledge. That was a highlight for me. Joe and I ended the session by doing (almost) back to back front 50 shoves. Heck of a session!
(setup 8.5 null smoke valley, jessup pj ultragrip, venture 5.8 cast baseplate titanium hanger, venom 88a big 91a small bushings, 53 mm orange/yellow swirl spitfire 99a f4 classic shape, es swift 1.5 b/w size 11.5 no insoles)
(pain level 2/10!!!)