Worked all morning. Was finally free to go skate a little and it was raining. Ugh. Kicked a soccer ball with Ollie for awhile in a covered section at the school until the rain stopped. Then went to research center feeling pretty tired. Just a couple days after saying my arthritis has benefitted from my new diet it flared up something fierce. It was pretty chilly out. Hoodie weather. I am as stubborn as it gets and tried to skate through it. Had a couple fun boardslides to start the session. A noseslide or two, one to fakie. Couldn’t get halfcab noseslide, but at least I was getting some poorly popped fakie flips before hand. Crookie grinds went pretty good. Got one back 50 that was kind of an accident. I tried to bail at the last second, but it turned out I was already grinding. I took that as a sign that I did not belong on my skateboard and left very bummed. Arthritis truly sucks.

Rob came over around 3 after I had spent some time working in the morning. It was super nice out. We started at the little manny pad by Mikes camera. The asphalt aint so great anymore, but that didn’t stop us. I had a new board (8.25) and wheels (bones stf 51mm thin ones). Rob got the first try manual challenge. I didn’t. Or second or third, etc. Clearly I was going to suck. We tried quite a few tricks and came close on some rare ones. Rob almost got halfcab manual back 180 out. He got a bunch of no comply manuals. Almost nose manual turned to fakie nose manual. I almost got kickflip manual, nose manual shove, nollie shove manual. Tried manual no comply shove out, didn’t get remotely close to that one. My board was feeling awkward.

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Good times and great commentary with @43shifty today. How the heck do you pop up that so easy @maxgarson @stumblin_steele ? #old

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Then we drove around striking out on spots due to cars for awhile and ended up here. I told Rob I had a line on my list there. Several tries later I rolled away from it. Ollie up, boneless wallride, kickflip off. Later on watching the footage made me laugh so hard because of Rob’s commentary so I had to make a little post. I was seriously crying laughing at the stuff Rob said. All in all a pretty fun day. I kind of skated like crap and still managed to get a line I really wanted so that’s cool.