skate journal: old dude saturday morning at dog park (march 1, 2025)
Another beautiful “false spring” day in the 60s. I went to dog park pretty early and quite a few of the old crowd showed. Bratcher, Jesse, Gordon, Eric, Paul, Cass and Rob. Was really hyped Rob came and started getting his skate feet under him. Saw some manuals, back 50s, fakie bigs, nollie shoves, back 180s. Jesse left right away unfortunately. Bratcher getting his willy grinds on. Gordon pop, speed and sold basics. Haven’t seen Paul skate in a while either and was surprised how hard he was ripping. Seemed like he hadn’t hibernated all winter. Cass had some good back 50s and manuals. Saw a pretty gnarly Eric slam. I skated okay. Didn’t do anything that stands out, didn’t get overly frustrated. I liked some back 50s on the curb, one with a shove out. Struggled more than I wanted to on front 50s on the bench. Cass, Paul and I played a game of SKATE. Paul won it, I was happy to get a really fun feeling fakie bigflip, but not happy to get another letter on a treflip.
(setup 3/10 null flaherty 8.3, jessup ultra, indy 149 forged hollow ace bushing, 51mm spitfire f4 99a classic, new balance numeric 440v2 wide navy size 12, half 574 vulc insole and currex runpro insole)
(pain level 6/10)