My legs felt good, but my head wasn’t in the game. This is probably because I took an unnecessary nap after work. I went to campus to meet Matt and Carleigh. I arrived first and was feeling out a line that should be first try no warm up for most people. Like Matt, he did it first try out of the car. Ollie onto a little ledge, kickflip on flat (he added treflip on flat) then front 180 this stupid tiny little curb into the “bank”. I never got the line and it took me a long time before I got a halfway decent ollie up the ledge. The front 180 took way too many tries.

Then we met up with Carleigh at the manny pad parking lot. She wasn’t feeling the crowds. Matt and I weren’t really either. We did some ollies up on to the red pad and tricks off. I had a nice primo landing on a kickflip. Ouch. Almost ollied over the manhole finally. Front 180 up back 180 off. Matt manualed all of it and did a bunch more I can’t remember right now. Carleigh was mostly doing flippers in the parking lot.

#day251. @matthouse pole ride fakie.

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Then we went to the bank to fence area where it took about 15 tries between the 3 of us before a clean kickflip to fakie was landed. Wowsers. We would all get good ones. Matt got treflip next. Carleigh did b/s kickflips, but don’t give her props on them. I took a long time to get a 360 flip to fakie, but I was hyped as that is a hard one for me. Carleigh got pop shove to fakie and then needed to take off. I tried some wallies and fence rides, but nothing really worked out. Matt did some rad pole rides to fakie.

Then Matt and I played a game of SKATE. Not a good game, as evidenced by the fact that Matt won. Ha ha. But really, it wasn’t a good game. I started by missing a kickflip and missing the double for nothing. But we still both ended up at SKAT and Matt ended up winning on fakie treflip. After that we sat and chatted for awhile. Pretty cool, Matt is awesome. The most amazing thing for me was being able to get up after sitting post skating without much pain. I’m seriously hyped on that.

(setup 8.1 null venture lows 52mm stf v3 nb# pj stratford 533 brown/gum (last day in these))