Rolled to the research center with Joe and Damon where we met Matt and eventually Carleigh and Jack. There was another dude there skating too, he was cool. We started out riding down the stairs. I had spenco insoles with adidas insoles on top of them and it felt really thick. Joe added a front 180 off the last stair, Matt nosebonked a ledge, we moved on to the main show. The ledge. People were doing their own thing. Sometimes on top of the hill trying lines, sometimes posting at the ledge. Matt missed a few treflips and back 50s so he clearly needs to be skating more. Damon was trying fakie flip lines. Fakie flip, fakie heel, fakie tre. Some other flippers too. He can do hardflips way too easy. Frontside Joe was in effect. Regular or fakie. Front shove or bigspin. Jack and Carleigh showed. Jack hurt his foot so he was just doing manuals and carving around. Carleigh did some noseslides, kickflips and the ol’ Rabethica. I got a crooks, some terrible front nose jibs (some of which were front crook attempts), couldn’t ollie high enough to do back 50. Matt had front tail to fakie and front 5-0 to fakie. Joe was doing fakie 50 front cabs out. Matt and I were trying noseslide 270 shoves. Damon was trying cab back tails. Oh yeah, he got a first try kick back tail. Dang! I was hurting bad and switched to the Gamechangers halfway through and felt much better.

(setup 8.25″ null spanbauer deck, venture 5.2 high v-hollows, venom 88a bushings, bones sft v3 52mm wheels, 3 washers on the inside of each axle, bronson raw bearings, nbnumeric quincy 254 12 gum/cream, spenco insoles then gamechanger insoles)