My current frontrunner for SOTY for sure. Even though I know it’s not remotely possible since he’s an am and probably doesn’t skate for a company that’s paying off Phelps all year.

I’ve been wanting to skate here awhile. Carleigh already did, but it looks so fun. Carleigh had gone to a yoga class for the first time in awhile before skating so she was kinda beat, but we skated for awhile. We started by the bus stop and each noseslid the flatbar a time or two. Then we ended up at some nice asphalt. I skated while Carleigh ate pizza. There was a nice red curb and I started posing slappy crooks on it and got several. I am so happy to have learned that trick, it’s one of the funnest tricks ever. I was trying to manual a sidewalk going fast, but kept failing. Had a little line of fakie bigflip, front shove, kickflip a manhole. Carleigh struggled with kickflips the day after landing almost all of them. Skateboarding rules like that. She ended up getting a few and we moved to the main area. The fountain was spraying water in a lot of the area so it wasn’t always skateable. I took awhile to ollie the 3 stair past the crack in setup to ollie the gap and when I finally did I ollied the gap first try. Then the wind changed and the fountain sprayed making the gap unskateable the rest of the session. So we ollied the little ledge to drop. Carleigh landed on it, but slammed a few times before finally getting it. I went the pose a bunch of ollies route until Carleigh landed it and gave me the motivation to commit. Hyped on doing that. I went for a line of kickflip up one, b/s wallride, ollie the 3 stair past the crack. Fun. I should ollie gaps more because I really do like the feeling of rolling away. Carleigh was pretty much done at that point. I skated awhile longer. Did some f/s wallrides, some slow and not really landed b/s flips off the 1. Then posed f/s halfcab flips off the 1 for a bit before landing one somewhat on accident. I thought I was bailing it, but ended up landing it. Kind of funny. I ended on a really high note of doing a 360 flip off as well. Even though it was slow it felt amazing and I landed it full 360. That trick rules. I had a fun time. Sometimes its weird having new wheels on perfect concrete. It’s like it’s too smooth or something. I know I’m weird, but I think I need little flatspots to feel the concrete better or something.