Again, way too long between the session and writing about it. Ollie and I picked up Rob then went to Valmont where others would meet us. Rob and I were tired/sore from the night before. I seemed to be worse off though as I couldn’t even manual a curb. Ollie was cruising around doing 180s everywhere and even getting some ollies up curbs. After awhile we went across the street for something new. Fuzz, Carleigh, Dean, Jack and Xander met us there. I put together a fun line for me of nose manual, kickflip up the curb, front 180 down two, sw front 180 down one. Ollie back 180’d the two. Rob nose manualled around the corner and off the two stair. Sick! Everyone else started warming up. The young kids Jack and Xander not needing much warm up of course. It’s hard to remember what everyone was doing at this point so I’ll just keep it about me (which is what everyone wants to hear about right? ha). Ollie and I were skating the mellow flat bank at the bottom. He did a pop shove to fakie and I did a treflip to fakie with a six point landing (4 wheels and 2 hands). Then everyone went around to a different two stair area. Xander, Jack, Rob, Fuzz killed some rad tricks. I bailed ollie’ing up the two stair and shot my board into the window (luckily it didn’t break) and it bummed me out so much. If I wouldn’t have been around friends I would have left for the night for sure. We then made our way back to the main Valmont spot where we skated the ledge. I still couldn’t do f/s grinds to save my life. I had a few jibby crooks and slow back 50s. Jack and Fuzz killed it though. Fuzz had some high speed switch boardslides. Jack did everything. Front lipslide to 5-0 shove out. Front 5-0 back 180 out. He killed it. Carleigh was off the phone at this point and skating too and got some good noseslides. Dean surprised us with some front 50s. Ollie was doing front 180s off the ledge higher than he has before. Xander did a sick front 50 nollie 3 shove out. Toward the end I started hucking kickflip back 50s and eventually got one. Rad, haven’t done that trick in forever. Ended up being a fun session mainly because of the crew. I need a day off of skating ..

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