skate journal: marathon valmont and dog park day (dec 3, 2022)
Let it warm up some then rolled to dog park. Well, I started at Valmont, did some pumping around and then forced myself to do 5 kickflips to fakie in a row on the bank. I would get 6 and it only took two tries. Then I went over to dog park and Jack B and Eric showed up around then too. We basically had the park to ourselves for a couple of hours and it was awesome. They were both charging. I was having a weird session where I would not land basic tricks, but get harder tricks first try. Like nollie back tail the bench (because Jack did it) and nollie back tail to fakie the c lurb. I also got first try halfcab noseslide which is rare these days and followed it with a goofy slow back 5-0 shove on the curb. Eric had heelflip over the parking block first try, crooks shove first try, front 180 the bench, front board shove, dude was shredding. Jack’s no comply over the metal bench then hippy jump was so good. I couldn’t commit to an ollie over it. We skated the barrier for a bit. Jack was doing really good fs ollies and ollies to fakie. Eric was close to back lip. Christian came by and shredded it. I got a totally not decked front rock. Then I went over to the skatepark again since some of the 303 dudes were there. Got a first try bigflip on the bank which hyped me up. Went back to the plaza and ran out of juice even though Eric and Jack were still charging and the park was quite crowded. The wind kicked in though and we bounced. Fun day, first couple hours with Jack and Eric were rad.
(setup null 8.3 vhs, jessup ultragrip, royal 149 ultralights, bones stf pj 51mm v1, new balance numeric 440 brown size 12 half insole)
(pain level 2/10)