Went to Safeway after work on my way to Crisis. I was dead tired. It was absolutely gorgeous outside. I fell asleep in the car instead of getting out to skate. That’s when it really hit home to me that something is wrong. Ugh. After waking up I attempted to skate, but it was terrible. 50s were as far as I got on the list. My feet were hating me for wearing the smaller shoes again. Gotta go back to the 12s.

(setup krooked manderson 8.1, venture 5.2 v-hollow lows, 1/16″ riser, thunder bushings, 3 washers inside each wheel, 50mm STF V1, new balance numeric pj 533 steel/gum 11.5)

After driving down from the mountains and chilling awhile I went to good ol’ Valmont to try my luck with the lipslide shove again. I quickly felt like crap. Total crap. It was like I was learning to skate all over again. I had done a couple of bad 50s and taken awhile to land a kickflip (but got a heelflip first try) before forcing myself to lay into more lipslides. My already cracked deck did not like that. I ended up basically just trying it over and over. It was kind of funny watching the crack spread across the deck a little further with each failed attempt. It became too soggy to even try flip tricks. After awhile I focused it and setup an old Krooked Manderson board that was in my trunk. I went back into lipslides with it, but was so tired at that point that I basically gave up and went home.

(setup null message 8.125 deck/krooked manderson 8.1, venture 5.2 v-hollow lows, 1/16″ riser, thunder bushings, 3 washers inside each wheel, 50mm STF V1, new balance numeric pj 533 steel/gum 11.5)

Doubles with the boy. @alacknork.cheese

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On the way to my mom’s in BV we stopped at the Fairplay park. No one was there. It was cool out, but not cold and no breeze whatsover. Ollie was cruising around the park quickly. I was hyped to skate, but quickly proved I had no energy once again. I bailed a lot. Ollie doesn’t skate much, but it’s fun when he does. He was doing manuals around the hip, carves over the rock love seat, pushing mongo everywhere, front 180s off the little wedge and halfcabs over the hip. I had done a couple of back 180’s over it and decided I wanted to backside flip it. 30 tries later I got one. Ollie with the hype. Then we left. I was hyped to get that trick.

(setup null message 8.125 deck, venture 5.2 v-hollow lows, 1/16″ riser, thunder bushings, 3 washers inside each wheel, 50mm STF V1, new balance numeric pj 533 steel/gum size 11.5)