skate journal: busy tennis courts with rob, cass, donnie (march 31, 2022)
I hyped up the tennis courts to Rob as a chill alternative to the dog park. And luckily when we arrived there was no one else, but it would soon get quite crowded. Argh. Guess it has been empty for me since it’s been winter. Cass showed pretty quickly too. I was wearing different shoes and had a major setup change so nothing felt good to me. I would have some okay crooks, switch front noseslides, a slow fakie front 50, slappy crooks and a couple slow kickflips. Rob had manuals, nose manuals, almost no comply shove manual, halfcab nose and halfcab boards. Cass manualled the ledge, back 50, can’t slappy crook, switch board the parking block, a good heelflip. We started a game of SKATE. Somehow within a couple minutes Cass was out and neither Rob or I had any letters. Donnie showed and we got to chatting/skating so the game never continued. Donnie did a few basics, but mostly skated fast and didn’t launch over the fence or anything ha. I didn’t skate very well and was kinda bumming that the warmer weather means other people will be skating there. Oh well, luckily there are like 4 parks now.
(setup null smoke valley 8.5, jessup pj ultragrip, royal inverted 144, spitfire f4 99a classic 52, 272 black 12 half insole)
(pain 5/10)