skate journal: broomfield struggles for me but others were ripping (aug 24, 2024)
Up kind of early. Paul, Bratcher and I rolled to Broomfield park. It was pretty warm. We would meet Tim, Darin, Eric and eventually Dave. I had a good start, was getting through the warmups pretty quickly. But I would really fizzle out and not have a very good session. Honestly don’t remember much from me other than some good feeling crooks, first try the bump to bar boardslide, a hurricane on the bank to curb. Flippers started okay for me, I got Paul to SKAT but he would win on switch front 360. I got a letter on treflip doh. Paul had some full pulls and was able to get nosegrinds this session. Also a million crooks shove on the blue ledge which are new for him. Tim front 50s and lots of slappys. Jack’s slappy the bank to ledge was really good as were his boardslides on everything. Darin was ripping, front crook the blue ledge and back tail to fakie. Also treflip pretty quickly. Dave was destroying. He would get a run of ollie to tail drop the bank to curb, kickflip into the bank (yes kickglip into the bank!), backside boneless the brick qp, front 50 nollie back 180 out the bank to ledge. Seriously insane. He also had nose manuals, nose grind I think, really slappy crooks and switch slappy crooks on the little bank to curb. Eric was ripping too, he got like 50 heelflips over the parking block. Three in a row at one point. First try front 50 the ledge into the bank, axle stall to fakie the quartapotty and a lot more. Sorry if I was a downer dudes, I was struggling but it was fun.
(setup 2/10 8.25 null is all you need, jessup ultragrip, 825 slace lows with ace hard bushings, 52mm 99a f4 yellow classic, strike mvmnt transit street trainers black/gum size 12 with currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 6/10 quite a bit of knee pain even though the shoes seem to lower it at times – maybe I’ll get used to them)