On a cloudy day I went to Blue Skies during lunch. Akie was there and we chatted for a bit as Dave had seen him the day before. I felt pretty good warming up. Did kickflip fakie first try, noseslides on the flat bar, slow front 50s on the low ledge. Dave showed. Akie was trying crooks on the flat bar. Dave was doing shove variations on the bank. I was kind of all over. Tried a lot of flip tricks (got a really bad tre and a good feeling nollie tre), tried front 50 kickflip out and couldn’t get it. Man, we just skated like two hours ago and I can’t remember much from this. I know Dave and I were tired. I struggled to ollie the flat bar, Akie didn’t. Dave tried boardslide shove, had a good front 50 that went up the escalator. At the end Dave was trying sex changes on the bank and I was trying fakie tres. Both of us got close, but neither rolled away. It had started raining and I was gone a really long time from work. Dave also tries front board 270 out. The highlight was Dave landing 5 kickflips in a row on flat!

(setup 8.38 null venture wides bones med bushings spitfire f4 52mm 99 NB+ stratford 479)

Plans to meet at Erie park fell through so I just went to research center. Felt sore initially but it got better. Noseslide, noseslide fakie, boardslide pop out, crooks, crooks fakie all happened within a couple tries which hyped me up. Then it was time for back 50. UGH. Just when I thought I could back 50 I seem to have lost it. I got a couple, but they were not good. It took my mood down. I also tried a bunch of frontside noseslides and never rode away from one. I managed one front 50 out like 20. I’ve probably skated too many days in a row and should blame my legs for the lack of pop. But instead I’ll blame the softer wheels and old board. Tried a line of front 180 up the curb, halfcab noseslide, but game up. Flatground went ok. I slammed on a front 50 when Janitor Joe came out for his smoke break. I think he finally doesn’t hate me. Either way I headed up the hill to let him enjoy his smoke break in peace. I tried to pop a good ollie over the little kicker thing (doubtful it popped much). Then I tried a b/s flip for awhile and got a pretty weak one. Went back to the ledge and just started hucking as it was getting windy. I tried kickflip noseslides or crooks nollie tre out. Ha ha, sounds good right? No really I want to do a crooks nollie tre some day so I tried to grind while setting up the back foot. On a scale of 1-100 with 100 being close and 1 being not close at all I think I got to 2. The kickflip noseslide was closer. A couple almost happened. Then the wind became too much and I left.

(setup 8.38 null venture wides bones med bushings spitfire f4 52mm 99 NB+ stratford 479)