I work the later shift this week, but Liz has to get up early to bring Ollie to work so I get woken up anyway. Rather then lounge around I decided to skate. I was thinking maybe Boulder park or Dawg Park. I guess in my head I knew I wouldn’t even turn in to Boulder park before I left and I definitely drove right past it without giving it any thought. I was wearing shorts again and it felt good in the morning heat. I even went shirtless for the full Sants effect (Josh thinks this place looks like Sants). My first slow warm up run actually went pretty good. Ollie, nollie, nollie 180, fakie shove. Kickflips weren’t as easy to get going, but they would come. My first ‘real’ line was kickflip, varial flip, front shove. It took awhile and I thought I’d be stuck on it forever, but after that tricks started flowing. Got fakie flip then haflcab flip. Heelflip then b/s flip. Landed nollie varial flip, fakie bigflip, fakie varial flip, and a few 360 flips with a hand touch. I didn’t get a clean 360 flip, but I felt like I was figuring out how to flip the board better. Close to nollie flip,nollie treflip, nollie bigflip, halfcab heel, varial heel, switch varial flip. Had fun. Probably got sunburnt.

(setup 8.25 null awkward vectors deck, thunder 147 HL stock bushings, 3 washers on inside of axles, 50mm bones stf v1, Es Swifts grey/white)

After dinner and tennis with Liz and Ollie I headed out to the research ledge. I was wearing shorts, my first session in shorts of the year. Some years I don’t want anything to do with shorts, some years I’m all about them. Maybe this will be one of those years. It might have to do with hearing how vitamin d is good for soreness. Anyways, warming up was tougher then I thought it would be. I tried a line for awhile of front 180 up the curb, halfcab on flat, noseslide to fakie. Ended up just giving up on that line. I had told myself I had to do a 360 flip and a back 50 before I could lay into the crook grinds. I thought I might be stuck on them forever, but luckily I landed each horribly and was able to move on to crooks. I also got a bad front noseslide, front 50, halfcab noseslide. Hucked a lot of flippers, didn’t land anything rare other then 360 flip (which is surprisingly hard for me lately). Tried front crooks for awhile, couldn’t get posted up on them. Ended doing another back 50 that actually felt good and a crook that felt good too. I didn’t land a whole lot, but I did skate harder then I have in awhile and that felt good.

(setup 8.25 null awkward vectors deck, thunder 147 HL stock bushings, 3 washers on inside of axles, 50mm bones stf v1, Es Swifts grey/white)