skate journal: dark cold dog park after work as the snow moves in (nov 5, 2024)
Posted in Skate Journal on November 6th, 2024 by corpoI left work and it was basically dark, a few snow flakes in the air. But I wanted to skate and I stopped at an empty dog park and ended up having a fun session. I had the park all to myself save a scooter toddler who followed me around for a while until I told him to stop. Couldn’t get a halfcab flip to start a line, but did have a fun one to get start. Boardslide the flat bar, kickflip on flat, crooks the bench, then up onto the wood manny pad and a wallie off the round metal wallie thing. Also had a good feeling halfcab noseslide on the bench, back 50 the curb, ollie (with an accidental bonk) the kinked flatbar. Had some mediocre front 50s on the bench, one with a shove out. Couldn’t get a treflip, but my bushing had totally locked up in the cold. Which is really annoying because normally the Royal bushings are good in the cold. I skated about an hour then ran out of energy. The wind and snow had picked up anyway.
(setup 7/10 null flaherty 8.25, jessup ultragrip, venture redrilled v8 5.6 v-hollows with royal bushings, 51mm spitfire f4 99a classic shape, new balance numeric 440v2 wide black size 11.5 half 574 vulc insoles and currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 4/10)