skate journal: dayton, bank to ledge battle, commerce city park with the nebraska crew and more (july 14, 2023)
Posted in Skate Journal on July 19th, 2023 by corpoRob, Joe, Eric, Lee, Sean and I met at Dayton park on a sunny hot day. There was a lot going on, hard to keep track of everything. Rob had some lines with mannies, back 50s, front boards. Joe had tried to go during one of Rob’s lines and had instant karma with a front 5-0 overshoot slam. Ha ha. Joe did Joe tricks and even added back 50. He was getting up onto the taller bench no problem. Eric had a nice boardslide transfer the wide spine. I was struggling with noseslide 270 shoves. Lee showed me up by doing it first try off the top ledge. But he couldn’t get it on the low bench like me. And especially not as good as I did it. I also got a front 50 on one of the ledges that took too many tries, but felt great when I did it. Sean slayed it as shown in the clip above. The ease at which he can pop up onto ledges is insane.
Then we went to the nearby bank to ledge and barged Rodrigo’s session. I slammed pretty much right away on a slappy crook attempt. I posed some frontside tricks before settling in on kickflip 50 for a couple of hours in the hot sun. Sean did some basic grinds, tailslides, felt out fakie back tails but hated the line to it. Lee maybe did shove nosestall then called it a session. Eric did an amazing staple gun. Joe did the Joe Hamilton and was the last one skating with me and got a kickflip front rock. Two hours later in the heat I was by myself skating hating things, but trying hard. I would end up getting a kf axle with a tic tac. It was cool though. I was hyped.
Lastly we went to nearby Commerce City park. Lee went off. Some tall noseslides, switch front noses, fakie 50s. Joe skated hard too, doing most of his tricks. Rob cruised some manuals. I ollied up the euro and did a fun little line of front tail on the bank to wallride nollie. Then we got some yummy mexican food and Eric paid way too much for tacos.
(setup 4/10 8.3 pmg, jessup ultragrip, ace af1 55, snot 52 pink swirls, new balance numeric 288S green/gum size 11.5 with 440 insoles)
(pain level 4/10)