It was supposed to snow for a few days. I didn’t have to be to work until 9:30. It was still dry out. So I went to the Boulder park in the morning. There was another dude there when I arrived. He was having fun getting carvy with it. I cruised around a little, did a couple very basics in the mini section. Struggled with front d which bummed me out. Did a horrible beanplant. Did some ollies over the hip and a kickflip. Tried to front 50 the down ledge and totally couldn’t. It bummed me out. As did carving around. I spent the rest of the time trying cabs over the tiny hip until I got one (as shown above, I man as partially shown above). I’ve never really done cabs before so I’m trying to learn them.

Then after switching back to lows (with a riser) I went to the trusty Valmont garage. I was a little sore from skating earlier in the day, but not too bad. My first wallie over the parking block was not a rock stop slam so that was good. Kickflips came pretty easy. Soon I was trying a bunch of stuff. I really didn’t land much (as usual), but I was trying hard. Got close to nollie flip, varial heel, hardflip, switch flip, nollie 360 flip, 360 flip. Got halfcab flips, heelflip, fakie flip, b/s flip. On the tiny curb I made myself lock into halfcab crook. I did a few, they felt rad. Also some front tailslides, front crook stalls. Then I was forcing myself to ollie the newspaper stand or do a 360 flip. After a bailed 360 flip I went to push and something was weird and my board shot off. Turns out I broke the truck. Doh. I haven’t done that before. Good thing I have some older ones I can use to setup.

(setup 8.25 null awkward vector, venture v-hollie hi’s in the morning, venture lows in the evening, 3 washers on inside of axles, 51mm stf v2, nbnumeric pj stratford 533 white/gum)