Feeling much much better I went to the dog park before work. There were more puddles then I anticipated. I found a section to work with though and had fun. After a quick warm up period with ollies, 180s, shoves off the nose, etc I settled in on switch flips for awhile. Then switch flips or 360 flips. Never got too close to switch flip. Took awhile to commit to 360 flip on the bigger board. Then started trying in a line with a flip trick I can normally do it like heelflip, fakie flip, halfcab flip. I would get several treflips, but none of them were without a hand down. they were whipping around really well though. Also came close to nollie tre, got a halfcab heel and was amazed at how good they were popping. Ended trying fakie and nollie bigflips. Got the fakie one, close to the nollie one. I left feeling good.

(setup: 8.38 old bottom of the well null deck, venture 5.8s, thunder bushings, 52mm reed wheels, 2 washers inside each axle, nb# quincy 254 blue/gum, spenco orthotic thinsoles with footprints heel pad)

Worked from home as I was feeling pretty sick. It allowed me to rest up and get feeling better. It also allowed me to assemble a new big complete from old parts in my garage. The rule was not to touch my existing setup at all. I found a really old 8.38 deck, some partially used Venture 5.8s and some wheels/bearings. When I was done with work I still felt pretty lousy, but I figured some exercise and fresh air would help. It did. I didn’t skate great, but I had fun. I had the trucks way too tight, so that didn’t help. I did the basic 50s above, which were both harder then normal. The frontside one is so much harder then it looks having to dodge the handrail. I played with some flippers too. That really old board didn’t have much pop. I tried a line for awhile of front 50 the narrow ledge (in the clip), kickflip into the second “bank”, cruise around the bike racks then backside flip up the slanted curb. Got so close. Then just did the b/s flip by itself. That was about it. I felt a lot better when I was done skating. I went home knowing I would want to keep skating the bigger setup so put my new wheels/bearings/good bushings in it.

(setup 8.38 null bottom of the well deck, venture 5.8, thunder bushings, some old STFs, 2 washers on the inside of each wheel, NB# quincy 254s blue/gum, spenco orthotic thinsoles with FP heel pad)