Still tired from a 16 hour drive the day before. I needed to get boards to 303 and had some errands to run so I just rolled out around 6pm. I had some new shoes. My first pair of Es shoes in a long time. They seem good. I cruised around doing a lot of crack nollies for a bit looking for this crack ridden alley.

This little metal ledge could be such a great warm up/ old guy spot. Actually, Max killed that spot in Nothing so what am I saying? I skated there for awhile and settled into trying a line. No comply 180, halfcab flip (whichever way seemed would work better) then front 50 back 180 out or front tail shove. The half cab flip was troublesome trying to time it in between cracks and then when I finally started getting the flow of it there were janitors or something standing near the ledge preventing me from going on. Doh.

Then I rolled to this spot and posted up for quite some time. I tried a line of fakie flip on flat (to the right of the 2 stair), switch front 180 up the first stair, to quick ollie up the second, 360 flip on flat then front nose to fakie the tall ass ledge. The 3 flip took for ever and the few I got were horrible. The ledge was too tall for me to get the front noseslides. I was bumming kinda hard, but a couple things came from it that I liked. Mostly that I had some fast fakie flips and was able to push switch comfortably after. Heading back to the start I had a great feeling nollie varial flip and I did a cali grind to manual to cali grind down the two stair which was fun. As bummed as I wanted to be I was happy I pushed myself a little and am not letting my arthritis flare up stop me from skating.

Escaped for a bit with Ollie to the school about 30 feet from my brother’s house. This is there and as fun as it looks. An uphill approach makes it hard to have speed, but it’s good. Ollie did fakie shove and shove over the hip. Then spent a lot of time filming me trying to do a back 270 kickflip which I would eventually land. But it’s an over 40 make with a lot of slow pivot action. Oh well, I’m hyped to have done that trick. I also did a boneless and we called it a session.

After a long drive down from Door County to my brothers house in Waunakee I hit the park solo. There was actually a few people there when I arrived. A few old dudes! I was hyped, there were three dudes who all looked at least 30, one might have even been pushing 50. I warmed up on the ramp which is one of the best ramps around. A tiny bit mellow, but man, so fun. I did quite a few tricks and had fun. Then went onto the flatground and missed a couple kickflips in a row. UGH.

Oh yeah, my shoe was dieing.

I should have stuck to the ramp, but I’m stubborn. All the old dudes left and a younger dude arrived. I kept struggling and my toe coming through my shoe was bumming me out. I had a good feeling kickflip to fakie on the bank and a halfcab noseslide on the ledge. Other then that nothing felt so great. The slight downhill of the park messed with my front 50s. Oh well, glad I got out there a little.