New board with Jack quote regarding Trick Factory and how we suck now.

And new shoes! Vox Duece in “steezy light gray” (Josh Steele). While I waited for Dean and Carleigh to show I skated flatground for awhile. I was feeling super clumsy initially with my new stuff. That and it takes me a long time to warm up anyway. I had fun though, posed some nollie/sw flip variations that I’ll never land. Landed a 3 flip poorly. Dean ended up going on a photo shoot for a bit so Carleigh and I checked out a ledge spot that ended up not being accessible. So we went downtown.

We started at St Julien. Pictured above in high quality smart phone greatness. For those that don’t know, the far side of the ledge isn’t as tall as this side, it’s only a few inches tall. We started with the typical ollies down. I found a box and we put it on the ledge on it’s side. Carleigh ollied it first t. I took 3 tries. Then we put it upright as Dean showed up. Carleigh committed the most times, but bonked the box a little every time. I managed to ollie it once. I would love to see a photo of it because I’m sure it was rocketed as can be. If only I could level out ollies I wouldn’t have to ollie so high. Ha, I was sincerely hyped though. Dean kinda went off for awhile. Front 180s up and down. Ollie up to stall transfer on the far side. No complies. It was rad. Carleigh and I got some front tailslides on the ledge. By “slides” I mean we each only got one ledgit (get it? ha) slide each. And by “ledgit” I mean just a few inches. Dean had some good 50s and tailstalls. We had some up the ledge, turn around, down the ledge lines. Dean front 180’d up over the tall part like it was nothing. I could barely ollie up it, but I did manage to turn around and back 180 it (with lots of pivot and tic tacs).

We left and went to a nearby covered yellow curb spot at a bank. Carleigh mostly chilled as she had just finished a big school project and was tired. Dean and I started with front 50s around the corner curb. Super fun. Then tried some tricks off the curb. I got a line I was hyped on of ollie onto the curb through the narrow opening, front shove off the curb, kickflip a crack to grate gap, front 50 around the corner curb. Super hyped. At this point I started to realize just how great I felt skating. Probably the best I’ve felt since the crazy reactive arthritis started back in October. So hyped. I got a few back 50s around the curb corner which was hard with the crack where it is. Dean was coming super close to kickflips off the curb and no complied a median. I tried another line of kickflip off the curb, manual a median then kick back tail. Didn’t get the last trick. Almost a first try line of front 180 off the curb over a flower pot, f/s halfcab flip (more like a quartercab flip) then kick back t. Messed up the kbt again. Dean left so I just settled into slow kick back tail attempts and ended up getting one eventually. It even slid a little bit. Super hyped my body is letting me skate. And a nice topper on the evening was watching the Nuggets beat the Lakers. Didn’t expect that.