skate journal: old berthoud park fun with fuller (june 16, 2024)
On a warm and sunny morning I picked up Dave and we went to the nice and simple old prefab Berthoud park. And it ruled even though warming up seemed slow. I took a lot of tries to get a kickflip over the hip. Dave less tries. But once we had moved on it went pretty great. Dave’s switch front bigs were so good. He had never even done a fakie ollie the way over the hip, then he does a fakie flip too! I had fun trying some switch front boards, was hyped the b/s flip only took a couple of tries. The crooks were really fun. I haven’t done a treflip over a hip in like 20 years, since the Aurora Wheel Park days, and maybe even before Null. So yes I know this one is terrible, but man it felt great that it was right there. I want to go do it better now! After that I tried a line for a while of nollie front tail the little round bar, flatground heelflip, front 50 the curved ledge. Never got all of them in a line, but did get each trick. Dave kept going. The slip ‘n slide blunt was cool. And the kickflip tail OMG! Extra fun session.
(setup 9/10 8.25 null spanbauer, jessup ultragrip, thunder hollow light 148 with royal bushings, spitfire f4 99a yellow classic shape 52mm, new balance numeric 440v2 black/gum size 11.5 half insoles and currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 3/10)