Been feeling my lack of tranny/park skills lately and want to skate parks a bit more. Not a lot, just learn to flow through them a little better. So I went to Lafayette after work on a cold evening (mid 30s). Hardly anyone was at the park. I totally just dorked around for awhile. I didn’t realize how bad I flat spotted my wheel yesterday, but it was really bad. Combine that with small ass wheels and skating the bowls was way harder then it should be. Like almost impossible to maintain speed. I like the flow bowl there. I got a few back 50s in different places on it. On the black ledge I did quite a few tricks. I love that thing. It’s too bad you can only skate it backside. Granite is really fun to grind. Front 50 front 180 out, front 50 to front lip, front 50 to front board, couldn’t get front 50 back 180 out or front 50 to manual to the bank. I did a lot of just dorking around doing some tiny ollies, trying to flow over hips and stuff. My legs were super sore. My quads in particular. I think it’s mostly from playing basketball with Ollie in worn down vulc skate shoes. Ugh. I tried a few 3 flips and didn’t come close at all. I tried a line of rollin on a little qp then b/s kickflip on the bank under the mountains then back 50 on the super tight vert qp. Never got the last trick. Gotta set up some new wheels. I like that park. I like it even more that the granite is worn in and grinds all raw now.

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