Jason and I felt like getting an early start.  I felt pretty crappy as usual lately.  I think I’m getting a sinus infection.  I skated in front of my house for awhile waiting for Jason and then Brian.  Ended up doing a faster than normal kickflip followed by a frontside flip.  Then we went to the ballpark ledges, aka Jason’s spot.  Because he kills it.  Without warming up he was doing 10 feet long front noseslides.  That’s his trick.  Fuzz, Brian, Neil, Jake and Nate eventually showed up.  Rad.  I was able to front 50 it pretty easily , but never able to get the front 50 shove.  Got a couple front 5-0’s but they were supposed to be front 50s so I wasn’t pleased.  After awhile I tried a run of noseslide coming up, then ollie onto the ledge and kickflip off.  Ollieing up the ledge was hard and took me way to many tries.  Then I finally got up it and around the stupid corner and had no where near enough speed to kickflip off.  Oh well.Next we went to the Lville skatepark where a ledge had been brought to the hockey rink.  Everyone I’ve ever skated with was there it seemed.  Louis, Darren, Travis, Jam, Max, Brian, etc.  The concrete is so perfect there it seemed hard to skate after the rough ballpark ledges and cracks.  I didn’t land anything for a long time actually and almost died on a back 50.  My back foot hung up on the way up the ledge and my front foot stayed on the board which went and grinded the ledge.  So I did the splits over the ledge.  UGH!  I sat for awhile and cooled off while everyone else seemed to kill it.  Fuzz learned a new trick – fakie 5-0 halfcab out.  Jason almost did back tails.  Nate did a ton of back lips.  Eventually I got a front smith then a front 50.  After awhile I played a game of SKATE with young Max.  He beat me, but we had a good game.  He was mostly trying 540 flips and I posed a couple.  Impossible.  Before leaving Louis, Brian S and I got in a nollie treflip rut.  Louis and I landed them then moved on to trying nollie front bigflips.  We were both really close and eventually I pulled one off.  Rad!  I think I kind of landed one in LA a long time ago with Nullers and JP around, but this one was legit.  I would have liked to skate longer, but I had to get on some Christmas family stuff.  Fun day.

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