Skipped out for lunch at Blue Skies on a sunny January day in the mid 30s. Warm up was trying nollie wallies. Dave and I got a few and Aki actually learned one right then. I tried the fakie version and landed something. Not really sure what it was, but it felt cool. Everyone went boardslide on the flat bar next before kind of doing different things. Aki hit the flat bar and got front lip, crooks and almost nollie back lip. Dave doing really good feebles on a flat bar and lining it out to front 50 on the other one. He had a few great front 50s. Then he started lining out front 50s to over the top 50 attempts. He never quite got that, but he did hop on the dragon rail. Dave had ollied onto the tall middle ledge easy so I tried to as well. I got up it second try! So I tried to get up it again and failed for a good hour even trying wallies sometimes. When I didn’t get the ollie/wallie up I would try front shoves off which was my real goal. I would get one, but it took a solid hour. I committed way more times, but the slow speed with such little setup makes it hard. And once again the make felt really awesome. Dave was doing kickflips, faster front 50s on the flat bar and almost the over the top 50s on the flatbar. That would be crazy. I finished trying a line of boardslide, 360 flip on flat, kickflip to fakie, halfcab noseslide. Never got the 360 flip, but it was fun because I was going fast (for me) on the boardslide which setup a decent speed 360 flip. I need to skate faster. I had a faster feeling fakie bigflip too. Really fun session even though I really didn’t land much. I guess it was just that I was actually pushing myself.

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

Went out to the garage feeling sore and tired. I put Aural Burrows on the tape player and began the hucking. I did a couple 180s or whatever then started hucking switch heels. Then after a few kickflips and a heelflip that took too long I went into huck mode of switch flips up the garage and nollie back heels down. I came very close to switch flip and somehow nollie back heel felt doable. I never got close, but I did commit. The board just never flipped all the way around. I finished with b/s and f/s flips and called it a night.

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