The whole Real team is sick, but Busenitz is like way up there in my skate nerd godliness. I was at 303 the other day and they were building a crazy quickcrete bowl/ramp/banks/hips/ledges little skatepark that looks pretty much fun as hell. Can’t wait to watch them skate it.

This is about the 4th instance of me doing a skate journal. Maybe this one will last again. It’s mainly for me to look back and remember the fun times I have skating and for my skate buddies to nerd out on as well.Been pretty frustrated with my board feel lately and have been obsessed with the idea of setting up a small board to try and regain some board control. Luckily I have the luxury of walking into my room and picking from a pile of 200 decks. I have been skating 7.875 for over two years straight which isn’t even a big board by todays standards. But hey, I’m extra uncoordinated ok. Anyways, the shape of the 7.625 looked perfect so I went with that.Good ol’ Nate was down for skating as usual and we met up at the little manny pad that I’ve been flailing around on for years. The new board felt pretty much great immediately. Great, now I don’t have any excuses for sucking! The session ended up being a total blast. I landed a bunch of 360 flips and put down a few heelflips which I haven’t landed in forever. I was hucking all kinds of tricks and even landing some. Nate is good and did tricks like nollie back 180 switch manual to swith front 180 out. Damn kids these days. I got a nollie front shove manny (over 35 make) and a nose manny back shove out and came close to a fakie bigspin manual.All in all a great session and I’m digging the new board. I promise to try and make these posts less boring.