skate journal: friday rocky mountain with rob and dave (april 7, 2023)
After a chill Friday at work I rolled through rush hour traffic to Rocky Mountain where I met Rob and Dave. They were warming up trying pressure flips. Both seemed close. I started with slappy crooks. It turned into a pretty good session. Rob had nollie tail, slappy crooks, nollie lips on the curb. Manual around backside then nose manual around frontside to 180 out. I think front board pop out on the ledge too. I skated decently for me. Had a lot of flippers including my first couple heelflips in months, f/s halfcab heel and flip, b/s flip, halfcab flip but no fakie bigflip or treflip. Got up on the ledge a couple times, but never got a grind. May have barely done a noseslide up to crooks jib that fell out right away. I couldn’t kickflip up the curb. Dave on the other hand, was still kickflipping up the curb after I had called and and was sitting. He had a fastplant over a median on the bank, manuals on the medians, shove fakie and ended with slappy crooks shove but couldn’t get it cleaned up. I know I’m missing a lot more. It was a fun Friday session and after had a fun dinner with Rob.
(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 nike insoles)
(pain 4/10)