skate journal: brief school slappies with dave then a spot i’ve wanted to skate for years (april 10, 2024)
Got home from work super tired and was sitting eating chips thinking I would not skate, but then Dave said he was at the school. So I rallied and met him. He was doing amazing slappy switch front crooks in a fast line down the little hill. I tried some switch front slappies. But then Dave had to leave.
While stuck in traffic on the way home from work earlier I saw this spot and was reminded that I should try and skate it. And I needed the motivation of a new spot to generate a little hype. I’m not sure why I’m dragging so bad this week. Anyway, as expected the spot was way harder than I imagined. I started with a little warm up line of switch 180 a tiny flat gap, pop shove on flat, front 180 a two stair after rolling up the handicap ramp. Then I basically tried to do ollie up the corner of the 2, noseslide the bench which I did a few times. A couple were okay but I still landed with no speed and had to do a quick little push before ollieing the next two. I also did some backside axle stalls and nose stall up to crooks the ledge on the right side. I wish it was waxed up because it’s good.
(setup 8.25 pmg, jessup ultragrip, slappy 8.5, spitfire f4 99a 51mm classic, new balance numeric 272 teal size 12 half thin insole and currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 3/10)