This clip rules!  Gotta love how similar the low cut shirts are!

After dinner I went swimming for a couple hours with the kids then immediately picked up Jake and Jason and headed to Valmont.  While Jason waxed before testing Jake and I did a couple laps around trying to manual every possible manny pad on the way.  That’s 9 each way.  So hard.  I think we each got about 3 of them total, but hey we were just warming up.  A little ways into the ledge session Jason slammed and got a shinner.  Not, just any old shinner, but a horrendous and horrible shinner.  Click here to see the blood.  Not for the weak at heart.Anyways, Jake and I skated for a bit longer while Jason laid down with his leg elevated.  I was actually skating better than I have been lately.  The new shoes don’t have very good feel though and I’m kinda all over the place.  Jake and I both did runs with ollies up the ledge, kickflips on flat then front 180’s off the dock.  I tried another one with sw front 180 up the ledge, no comply shove on flat then front shove off the loading dock, but I didn’t commit.  Felt like it was possible at least.  Jake had some good front tails.  We tried to race to 3 3 flips, but neither of us got there.  I landed two of them, but they were both so bad I think it adds up to less than one.  I was feeling pretty good on energy and trying lots of flippers in between ledge bails.  I really didn’t land much, but it felt great to skate hard finally.  All this swimming has really helped the groin.  The ledge tricks I got were back noseslide, back board pop out, front board pop out, front noseslide to fakie, weak front tail (but I suck at that trick so yeah!), front 50s, crooks, back 50 and came close to front 50 shove and front 50 to front board popout.Right before leaving we had a little kicker session off the low part of the escalator.  Jake got nollie and halfcab.  I got kickflip and close to front shove.  I did a few kickflips, but they all felt rocketd.  Ugh.  I blame it on the bright blue shoes.

Clearly he’s my kid picking PJ Ladd and Busenitz.  He didn’t know who Billy Marks or Chris Cole was.   So awesome.