skate journal: fun short session at boulder ditch (aug 30, 2023)

Went to Boulder ditch on a hot afternoon after work and met up with Dave. We had seen the recent addition and wanted to check it out. I struggled to get an axle stall on it, Dave would get pivots. We were both pretty sporadic for a bit until we figured out what and how to skate some things. I had my contact ripped out of my eye by a pine tree. That kind of sucked, but luckily Dave somehow saw it drop to the ground and I was able to recover it. Dave had caveman 50s on the beam, steezy front boards, back board, nosepick and had some long lines. I had started out on 8.3 royals and changed to 8.25 ventures and liked it more. The rock ‘n roll, slide to fakie then switch nose jib was really fun. The noseslide to fakie took a while and Dave had left (as if most of you didn’t already know this since his truck was gone). Fun, different spot.

(setups argh 8.3 with royals then 8.25 with ventures, new balance numeric 272 teal size 12 half insoles)
(pain level 5/10 some left achilles pain)