So hyped to see Riley again. It’s been way too long. Riley and his homie Brandon picked me up i Fremont then we met Matt, John, Dan and Drew at Donut Hill. I tried to skate, but it wasn’t really happening with my side. So I filmed mostly. Everyone killed it. We went to spots, Riley and Drew got tricks. Things were groovey. Filming lines seemed to somehow strengthen up my side and around dusk I was finally able to skate a little. We were at a bank to rail spot. Riley and Drew filmed sick lines. Joe and i did some little tailslides. Matt got an ender. Crooks to forward. So gnarly. Dan manualled a lot. A Element pole jam was brought out and we dorked around on it. I hadn’t really done any regular pole jams, but then they wanted to film a sequence of all of us doing pole jams so I had to man up and did a few of them. The bigger setup sure is nice for that. Riley did about 10 different pole jam variations including switch 180, back 180 and skier. So sick. After that I started posing my dream trick of no comply pole jam finger flip. I was getting close and Dan insisted on filming it and somehow I landed it. Pretty hyped although it was kind of a weird one where I held onto the board for awhile and stood there. Oh well, we had fun. Then we crashed at Joes.

Still dealing with the side pain quite a bit and it caused my neck and upper back to go to shit as well. Ugh. On top of that a 9 hour drive to Omaha and I was dropped off at the park to meet up with Joe. We skated the mini snakerun section. I was sucking. I tried a hurricane and that set my side off. Ugh. I posed around the rest of the night, but that was about it. Came close to an axle stall in the 7 foot section. Joe killed the ledge. Fakie hurricane, hurricane, back 50 boneless out, so many tricks. He was ripping. Drew showed up and killed the park bigtime. Crooks transfers on the tall flatbar, back 360s over the hip and atf ripping. Cory Foster and Trey were there too. Not sure Trey landed any tricks, but Cory did some insane stuff. It was funny seeing them do some “Muska flips”. And we were out.

Met up with Bernie and the Commission dudes at the Winona ditch for a skate jam. I just watched of course and filmed with Bernie’s camera. The casper flip that went down was pretty sick. Some other good stuff went down. Click on the photo of Carleigh for Jack’s photo blog of the day. Next spot was a long ledge. My side had started hurting and I thought I could loosen it up with a little skating. Nope. It got really bad. So bad I wasn’t sure I’d be able to get in a car. Luckily it takes people forever to land manual tricks and it loosened up enough could at least get in a car. Jack got a sick manual. Chad and Derek almost did.