skate journal: early library with old dudes (july 20, 2024)
Up earlyish because we’d be celebrating Liz’s birthday later on. Met up with Bratcher, Tim, Salty and even Fuller at the library spot. I haven’t been there in like a year. It was pretty hectic at first with the homeless cleaning up their spots from the night before. I would get kind of frustrated at first by the cracks and craziness of the spot, but calmed down and had fun. I skated whatever, would do okay as far as getting most tricks I wanted, but didn’t get as far into the bag as I would have liked. Got a few front 50s on the taller ledge, struggled with crooks, took a long time to get a sketchy fakie front 50 switch front shove out, couldn’t get kick back 50 or front nosegrind 180 or many flippers. Bratcher did a few tricks down the ledge. I liked the switch boardslide to 50 the most. He almost got a nosegrind on the little ledge. Tim got from noseslides and 50s on the low ledge. Salty wasn’t too into the spot but still skated and worked on some things like switch crooks and fakie bigspins. Dave was the last one there, but he packed in some good tricks. Front 50s the tall ledge, back 50 and back 50 back 180 the low one, almost switch slappy crooks transfer. At the Dave and I started trying ollie up then trick down the ledge. It was so hard to get the ollie up and setup in time. No surprise, but Dave did his way quicker (and better). When I finally got the noseslide though it felt really cool. Fun session, weird and fun spot, crazy environment. Then I went on to play tennis and go for a long walk with Liz and was so tired.
(setup 4/10 8.5/14.25 null 20 year, null grip, thunder 149 team hollows with royal bushings, 52mm spitfire f4 99a classic yellow, new balance numeric 440v2 wide 11.5 white with half insole and currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 5/10)