skate journal: warm crowded parker with a good crew (july 27, 2024)

After a pretty chill drive Rob, Paul and I met up with Venture Dave and Jake. The park was somewhat crowded with a skate school going on as well as quite a few others. I struggled to find any rhythm and never found a groove. I didn’t see a Dave impossible so I’m guessing I wasn’t the only one. He was close to bigspin front nose though. Saw Rob with manuals and a nose manual or two, some boardslides on the long ledge. Jake seemed pretty on it at least. He had nollie back tail before me, front tail, crooks to fakie, blunt variations on the little qp. Paul was shredding the ledge with back 5-0 front 180 out, front 5-0s, close to b/s nosegrind. Also some long grinds on the little qp. I couldn’t do flip tricks, switched between setups disliking both. Had a crook, some accidental front 5-0s, front 50s down the low downhill qp and some cheater axle stalls to fakie (one of which I followed with a halfcab noseslide on the ledge). Not the best Parker session, but whatevs.

(setup 2/10 null 8.5/14.25 20 year, null grip, slappy 8.5 lights with ace bushings, 51mm pj bones stf 103a, new balance numeric 440v2 white size 11.5 half insole and currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 3/10 left knee is really swollen)