skate journal: boardslides with donnie at uni hill (march 28, 2024)
After work on a pretty nice day I went to meet Donnie and skate campus. We met and Uni hill, but ended up staying there. I had gotten there first and attempted very unsuccessfully to warm up. My knee was hurting after putting the compression sleeve on and made popping difficult. After some various goofing around and a couple kickflips we settled in on trying to boardslide the tall ledge into the “steep” ramp. Ha. I had tried boardslide transfer from the ramp first, but it was weird. I got a couple boardslide transfers after all, none of them good, all coming to a stop. But it was tall and it felt foreign being so high up trying to balance and slide. The bails definitely did not feel good on my knee. It was fun though. Donnie’s front board to fakie over it was so good. Then the switch board transfer too. We skated for two hours and all I had to show was a couple of boardslides coming to a halt. ha ha. Oh, and I guess I was happy to get first try kickflip, fakie flip and b/s flp. Couldn’t get halfcab flip though and a treflip attempt hurt my knee. Donnie managed a couple flippers at the end that were really good. First try treflip on a very old 8.75 made me question my manhood ha ha.
(setup 6/10 8.25 pmg, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.6 v-hollow bones medium bushings, 51mm spitfire f4 99a classic, new balance numeric 272 teal size 12 with currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 6/10)