skate journal: campus missions and filming (april 1, 2023)
Went to campus with Cass on a nice morning. I had that nervous feeling associated with wanting to get some additional tricks for my 50 part with the deadline coming up quick. We went by the little yellow lurb, but Cass wasn’t feeling that spot so we looked at Baker ledge which had cars before ending up at the downhill alley spot. We played a warm up game of SKATE that Cass won. We both did some basic flippers, but did not get get too far into the bag because no one landed each others tricks. Then we started trying some lines. We did some kickflips and halfcab flips into the “downhill” and some noseslides. Cass got a noseslide shove so we got the camera out and started rotating 5 tries each. I was trying nollie tre first, but it wasn’t feeling possible so I moved on to b/s flip, switch 180, noseslide fakie, fakie flip. I would get a very bad version of the backside flip and fall on the fakie flip. Then Cass would get his line and it was banging. I would get his back with a better version of my line, but that’s not saying much. Then I tried for a while and could not get another backside flip. We went to 303 then met the Null dudes and more at Kitrich.
I was quite sore as was Cass. Those dudes was ripping. I did a few noseslides and crooks and that was it. Cass had a really nice front nose shove. Garrett was smoothly rattling off tricks. You never know what Hayden is going to do. Sean cruising fast making everything look so solid. We did some more spot lurking then ended up at the new business building and where I filmed Garrett and Hayden battle some awesome lines. Hayden’s friends were charging too. Fun day.
(setup 6/10 8.25 null spanbauer dead spots, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.6 v-hollow royal bushings flat top washer, bones 51mm pj, es swift maroon size 12)
(pain 4/10 not bad all things considering how much we skated)