skate journal: dark cold dog park after work as the snow moves in (nov 5, 2024)
I 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)