skate journal: frigid cold 20th st diy, steep bank and airport ditch spots in omaha (jan 25, 2025)
Got to Omaha on a sunny day with a little breeze. It felt pretty good out actually. For about 20 minutes. Then the wind kicked in and the clouds rolled in and it was brutal. We met Joe and Doni there, others would come eventually. Jack didn’t have the best session, was feeling off because of the wind. Garrett had some good back tails, I think smiths on the qp, tails on the bank to ledge, halfcab crooks to fakie the ledge, a lot more greatness. It was great seeing Joe skate and he treated us with an abundance of front 50 shoves. In fact, he did two in a row to start a line to front shove the hip. Kind of amazing. “I figured the two shoves would set me up to land the shove over the hip better”. He also had some 50s to front board, back 50s, fakie front 50s, kickflips on the bank, he was ripping. Cass was ripping too, he had some good 50s on the ledges, ollies over the hip, bluntslide the curb. I skated pretty bad, but had brief spurts of landing okay stuff for me. Crooks on the tall ledge, rock ‘n roll the tight qp on the mound, noseslide to fakie the bank to ledge (but I couldn’t crook it). I hucked some kickflip noseslides, but couldn’t get myself to committ.
Then we went to this bank spot with a couple little transitions that is infinitely harder to skate than it looks. Mainly because the ground is super rough around it. Jack did the 4 down. Joe and I took too long to just do little bank rides. Doni and Coby got close to tricks. Garrett did an amazing crooks to fakie.
Next we went to a crazy ditch spot out by the airport. At this point it was soooooo freakin’ cold and the wind was brutal. My board was a useless noodle so I didn’t skate. Joe got a shove over the hip. Jack went gnar with a varial heel into the bank and rode away in the ice.
(setup 2/10 null 8.25 keyhole, null grip, slappy lights 8.25, spitfire f4 99a classic orange/black, new balance numeric 574 vulc grey/orange size 11.5 with half insole and currex runpro insole)
(pain level 4/10)