After work and a little down time I met up with Rob and Dave at the Dog Park. Dave found this right by the dog park and this is the first time we’ve all skated it. It’s quite incredible concrete. Perfect flatground. I felt very awkward and stiff when I began. Rob was already killing it. Dave and I speculated he was secretly training in Ireland. Ha. He had some good lines with cabs, kickflips, halfcabs, 180s, etc. I think Dave was on a front shove, kickflip, nollie halfcab program. Then we played a game of SKATE. Rob missed a couple double or nothings so he ended up out first. At that point I appeared to stop landing tricks. Dave got me with a new one, pop shove body varial. I ended up winning with a sex change.

Then we all went over to the manny pads. Rob continued to shred with long manuals and one with a body varial out all perfect. Dave went to work with switch ollies up one pad then switch nose manny attempts on the next. I couldn’t find the nose manual balance, but got a switch front 180 manual and close to kickflip manual. Rob took off. Dave continued to huck and ended up getting a perfect switch nose manual 180 out. It was bonkers rad. Then he left too.

So I went to the ledge which ended up being fun even though I struggled with noseslides and crooks initially. My two easiest staples. Actually, I struggled with everything. I got front 50s on the low part fine, but not the higher part. I couldn’t land 360 flips. I mostly hucked nollie inward heels though and had a couple really close ones. Front tails, back 50 both sucked. So I started hucking and it was fun. Got a b/s hurricane! It felt really cool. Got close to front and switch crooks. Started hucking switch front nose shoves (after failing to do 270 shove out) and ended up kind of landing one. So even though I really didn’t land much of anything I had fun. I guess trying new stuff is fun for me.

(setup 8.38 null control room, venture wides, venom 91a bushings, bones stf 51mm v2, nbnumeric pj stratford 533 steel/gum)