skate journal: depression session at dog park with a redeeming crooks shove (sept 30, 2024)
After work and a stop at Satellite I went to dog park and met up with Paul and then later on Dave. I felt bad initially and would not really feel better. Like, at all. I know at one point I almost couldn’t get over a parking block or handle the landing. Geez. Paul nollied over a parking block, was close to nose manual shove, was real close to switch front heel. I very much struggled with flip tricks, didn’t really land anything. My one saving grace was crooks were working. I did a sketchy crooks to fakie and then went in on crooks shove. About 25 tries later I got a crook shove that felt quite great. After that I went to go over to Valmont to see Dave, but he came over and we skated the bank to curb. Which was Dave landing tricks like back tail, front pivot shove to fakie. So sick! And me getting hit on my swollen achilles by my board. Argh.
(setup 2/10 null beatles 8.25 deck, null grip, slappy low profile 8.25 trucks with royal bushings, 52mm spitfire f4 99a classic shape yellow, new balance numeric 440v2 black size 11.5 with half 574 and currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 7/10 knee/achilles)