skate journal: friday fun long dog park (feb 7, 2025)
On a nice Friday afternoon I got out to dog park later than I had hoped, but in time to see Will before he left. I don’t really remember what he was doing but I think it was nose manual then back tail. He had to leave. I skated for a while, there was a good crew of people. I skated pretty well, but it’s been a couple of days so it’s a blur. I had put ace 44s on my 8.3, mostly liked it. Did front 50 on the bench, crooks, back 50s on the curb, managed to do a manual, I think a few of the ultra basic flippers. Dave showed much later, I was pretty beat but skated for an hour before my calf acted up. I did a fun little line of slappy crook the front shove off the side off the bump to rail. Dave was doing ride on grinds to boardslide on the green curb, lines all the way into the corner which I wasn’t seeing. Ollie nosebonks on the bank to curb. I did a line switch slappy crooks to regs, slappy crooks, ollie the kinked rail and when I landed pain shot through my calf. That pretty much ended my session. Dave was ripping way more than I have documented.
(5/10 setup 8.3 null keyhole, jessup ultragrip, ace 44 ksl af1 hollow, spitfire f4 99a classic shape 52mm orange/black, nike sb sad dunk size 12 half 574 vulc insole and currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 4/10 until the calf)