Kinda sore and tired, but skated flat for awhile in front of the house.  Was gonna hang with the kids, but they were just watching a movie so after no good tricks I left to Valmont.  There was a big puddle there from the rain earlier.  I waxed up the ledge real good anyway because now the spot was like a gap over ledge.  I started trying mostly noseslides popped up to crooks, but never got one up into crooks.  I got a few front 50s over but struggled.  Out of nowhere I tried a nollie flip and landed it.  WTF?!?!?!  I giggled for a bit super hyped and almost landed the next one too.  That’s either the 3rd or 4th nollie flip I’ve landed and the last one was on Campus by the banked manny pad when I was skating with Nate and Jack a few years ago.  I started trying a line of a fast kickflip (that left me with enough speed to do a trick on the curb on the far north side of the parking lot without pushing) followed by a back pivot then front 50 over the water.  I think I got that once or twice.I was pretty beat, but Nate ended up being able to skate late so I couldn’t pass up skating with him again.  I went and picked him up and we went back to Valmont.  Nate of course front 50d the water like it was nothing.  He tried a bunch of noseslide nollie heels out.  Some were close.  Pretty good considering he can barely do noseslides.  We played a no holds barred game of SKATE which means Nate can do nollie and switch tricks.  Things started out bad when Nate missed the first kickflip and the double or nothing.  He made a bit of a comeback, but missed a lot of his tricks and will have to live with that loss for a long time in Portland.  Ha.  After SKATE Nate and I kept trying noseslide variation.  He was trying nollie heel out and I was trying to go into crooks.  At one point I got a first try 2mph front tail on the low part and Nate back 50d over the water.  Nate also landed his first ever switch front big heel.  Ridiculous.  Since I had landed a very rare nollie flip I went for the trifecta of nollie flip tricks I can do.  I tried nollie varial flip for awhile before getting a bad one.  Then I tried nollie treflip forever while Nate tried switch treflip.  Kind of appropriate considering we both learned those tricks at the same time.  After a good 20 minutes I finally got the nollie tre and Nate pretty much got my back with a switch tre.  Sick!  I was super exhausted, but man what a fun session and wow I will miss Nate.

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