Went to Blue Skies Skatepark for an early lunch break. It was so nice when I got there. That doesn’t mean the warm up process was easy unfortunately. My warm up line ended up being a boardlide on the flat bar, no comply 180 then switch noseslide on the little ledge and I managed a little crooks after that too. That run took me a long time the last time I was there. Next run was noseslide the flat bar and try front 50 shove. I never got the shove out though. Partly because someone waxed the crap out of the ledge and it was terrifying. Partly because I was trying to skate it faster then normal. I had done a few flip tricks. But then the wind kicked up fierce and kind of ruined everything. I tried to skate through it for awhile. Did my first “switch front nose” on a flat bar. Pretty fun. Tried boardslide shove out on the flat bar, got kind of close. Tried to ollie up the tall main ledge for awhile and got close, but no cigar. Stupid wind.

After work I went out in the garage for a bit to skate flatground. After the warm up period I basically tried switch flips “up” the garage and rattled off other tricks “down”. I never got a switch flip, but I did get very close. I got kickflip, b/s flip, varial flip, fakie flip, f/s flip, heelflip, 360 flip and got stuck on varial heelflip.

(setup 8.25 null venture 5.2 hi’s 3 washers inside 52mm spitfire 99a F4 bones med bushings nb# pj stratford 533 burgundy)

Not even that cold of a night, but I just don’t like much cold anymore so I went out into the garage. I had a new cassette tape by Aural Burrows to listen to so that was cool. That’s one of my favorite parts of skating flatground in the garage, being able to listen to music without it being headphones. I started slow though. 180s, shoves and eventually kickflips. I basically stuck with nollie heel/ switch flip attempts going towards the laundry room and other tricks towards the garage door. I never came remotely close to the nollie heel, but I came super close to multiple switch flips. Going the other way I had varial flip, b/s flip, f/s flip, heelflip, 360 flip, nollie varial flip, fakie bigflip, an over 80 varial heel. Close to rick flip and super close to hard flip.

(setup 8.25 null venture 5.2 hi’s 3 washers inside 52mm spitfire 99a F4 bones med bushings nb# pj stratford 533 burgundy)