skate journal: old man night at square house and a lot of pain (march 30, 2022)
Arrived to a mostly empty Square House as I was pretty early. Took a couple runs on the ramp, then Dave showed and went to the park section so I did too. After a while Bryan from Sk8 Ratz joined and we mostly skated the park side just the three of us for a couple of hours. Warming up was difficult! I’ve been in a lot of pain lately and I don’t know why. It’s been a few days so I don’t remember the sequence of things very well. The first thing I remember was a nollie bigspin on the bank, maybe a few slappies. It was nice being able to start slow in the middle of the park. Dave and I had started to get things going when Bryan showed. Had some fun noseslides and eventually crooks on the bump to ledge and took too many tries to get kickflip to fakie on the bank. Dave would get some solid 50s and almost back 180 out. Bryan had front 50 shove and front tail, close to fakie big tail. We spent a lot of time on the euro. I took wayyyy to long to get a couple kickflips then could not get the hip b/s flip after. Bryan got a Glennish looking treflip (IE 270 flip and not clean) and kickflip. Dave would line out pop shove further and further until he got it. He was the only one grinding the diamond cut coping, some fun frontside grinds across/down the new feature. I was trying to back 50 across down and totally hung up with the kingpin which immediately ended all hope of me sticking with my setup on venture lows. We eventually went over to the ramp. Eric, Brian, Tom, Billy were there. Seemed like those guys were having fun. I don’t remember a whole lot other than me bailing axle stalls and the knee pain being too much to keep skating. Dave was funny and did a bunch of front 50s right after Eric made fun of them. I get the diss, even if I think that trick is fun. It was a fun night, I need to figure out why I’m hurting so bad these days.
(8.25 null spanbauer, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.2 lows bones medium bushings, spitfire 51mm 101a classic shape with 2 washers inside, new balance numeric 288S grey 11.5 no insoles)
(pain level 5/10)