skate journal: blue skies after work with dave and rob (june 19, 2024)
After work I went to Blue Skies and met up with Dave and Rob. I had gotten there first and was really struggling to motivate and feeling very tired after work. Ended up kind of just hucking some flip tricks to get warmed up like nollie back heel with no chance of actually landing. Eventually we settled into some things. I did a line of switch front nose a flat bar, fakie flip on flat, switch front shove on the bank. Don’t worry, it was all way worse than it sounds. Also tried a line of noseslide to fakie, front halfcab heel on flat, kickflip to fakie on the bank. I think I ended up settling on the kickflip to fakie without the line. Rob had done a style crail block, nollie bigs, backside ollies, no comply bigspins. Dave had a lot of lines too that I don’t fully remember but included hippy jumps over the rail, boardslides, front boards, fakie flip on the bank, sex change on the bank, fakie sex change on the bank! Inspired me to get a fakie varial flip (with lots of toe drag) on the bank. Then we went up to the hockey rink for a game of SKATE that was cut short by some heavy rain. Rob had gotten his first kickflip in a while, I got really lucky with a first try heelflip, Dave tried to halfcab flip as the rain set in. Fun session with the bros.
(setup 2/10 8.25 null all you need, jessup ultragrip, thunder hollow light 148 with royal bushings, spitfire f4 99a yellow classic shape 52mm, new balance numeric 600 black/gum size 12 currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 4/10)