Slept in real late on a hot Sunday. Did some cleaning then met Dave an Rob (yes, Rob!!!) on campus. We started at the bank to fence spot which luckily had some shade. Everyone did their thing to get warmed up. Rob was killing it. Such a treat to skate with him. Great style and attitude. Dave too. Man I’ve been skating solo to much, this ruled. We all did a bunch of tricks on the bottom bar like a bank to mini-curb. Tricks on the bank. We ended up filming some. Dave had a line of front 180 a manhole then fakie wallride. I had been playing with an alleyoop halfcab flip which I guess is kind of a cab flip. I eventually got one that was mostly one motion and less then 90 degrees of pivoting. Rob did a nosepick fakie, 270 kickfilp and bigspin front nose. It was hot and we should have left for water, but we kept skating. I was trying front crooks and failed. Ended up getting a line with a kickflip over a manhole, then a kickflip (frontside) on the bank, then cruised down the hill and ollied a manhole and did some powerslides. That be fun! Dave did a bunch of front slashes (cooler then it sounds), Rob did kickflip axle stall. We had fun. Then we moved on and found some water before ending up at the amazing new ledge spot next to the 420 field. It seriously rules. It was super hot though and energy was hard to come by. Dave got into a bunch of crooks, but the pop out wasn’t working. I didn’t really get in to crooks. Dave had some nice front 50s. I tried some too and managed to shove out of one. Also got a really bad back 50 after almost dieing on one.

Later in the evening I switch trucks to some Thunders I had laying around. I have been having trouble with how the PJ trucks turn. I went to the research ledge and I was really tired. It was dumb. I did a few basics before the comforting feeling that I wished I still had the Ventures on hit me. So I went home and put them back on with no desire to switch again. I could see maybe skating Indy as I liked how they skated on the big board. But I’ll probably just stay on Ventures as that’s what I have laying around and, well, they are really good.