It was so nice out. Almost 50 degrees with almost no breeze. It felt like spring. I found a dry patch (smaller then the photo above) and went to work on tricks. I started with no pop shove tricks, then got to kickflip and started to try and go past that. Struggled with b/s flip which bummed me out. Never got heelflip which bummed me out. Tried some PJ shoes I was wearing in my car for awhile and had the same luck. Clearly it’s not the shoes. Left to try and find something more motivating and found this spot. Tried some lines there and almost focused my board. Went to the nearby two stair that was dry (but the curb up/down was wet). I struggled to front 180 down it and couldn’t ollie up it. I big part of the reason is because of the terrible cracks. I went home super bummed on how I’ve been skating.

(setup 8.5 null ollie deck, venture wides 5.8, pink/purple spitfire 52mm 99a F4 conical wheels, venom 88a bushings no bottom washer, new balance numeric 598 black/white shoes)

Feeling energetic from not skating much and after a long drive to/from Denver selling boards I searched for dry and ended at the Valmont garage. There were a couple of younger skaters when I got there. They were having fun, it was cool. I had long johns on so felt a little stiff because of that, otherwise pretty good. One dude was doing long front tails. Made me want to learn them. I had a few slappy crooks, slow 50s, kickflips. I was skating ok. Those dudes left after awhile. I lost a little energy, so kind of just started dorking around trying slow treflips (never got one) and started hucking switch front crooks. I did the first one I tried. But it was even more terrible then the one I posted. But it was cool. I felt good about that at least.

(setup 8.5 null ollie deck, venture wides 5.8, pink/purple spitfire 52mm 99a F4 conical wheels, venom 88a bushings no bottom washer, new balance numeric 598 black/white shoes)