skate journal: westminster park with monico! and cass and matty and then some broomfield (march 8, 2025)
Up early on a crisp Saturday morning I met up with Monico! Then Cass and Monico’s brother Matty met too. We tooled around a little and then Cass, Monico and I played a game of SKATE. Monico obviously won it, but it was a decent warm up and I did get a few flippers at least. Then I filmed Monico get like 3 lines in like 5 minutes. He is so incredible I can’t even believe it. Cass was ripping too, front noseslide and front board shove on the flat bar. Monico 50’d the biggest rail in the park, varial heeled up the euro, big heel the hip, kickflip over the pyramid. It was amazing. Matty learned nollie front heel over the hip and added nollie heel and nollie inward heel. I had a fun line of switch front nose the flat bar to quick fakie flip. The boardslide did not come easy, the setup is so quick. It was fun though.
After some breakfast Cass and I met up with birthday boy Sean at Broomfield. Also there was Gordon, Jesse and Darin. I was really sore. I had some okay crooks, some tricks on the bank to curb, but that’s about it. Gordon pop shove to manual on the black box. Sean’s ollies on the steep bank were so sick. At the end Gordon, Jesse and I played a game of SKATE. I was so sore, but managed a few flippers and it was SKAT for all of us and Gordon one on nollie back heel. I’m okay with a letter on that one.
(setup 7/10 null 8.3 sean, jessup ultragrip, venture v8 5.8 with titanium hanger and bones medium bushings, spitfire 51mm f4 99a classic shape, converse fastbreak grey size 12 half 272 insole and currex runpro insole)
(pain level 5/10)