The rain was threatening. I had chilled with Liz for awhile then went to meet Dave (and hopefully Carleigh but she ended up not making it) at the meet up curb on campus. I was way more sore than I expected. Each ollie hurt, so I tried to avoid them for awhile. But you can only do so many slappy crooks. Oh yeah, I had some new wheels. 51mm Spit 101a F4. They felt big. Add in a 1/8″ riser and some different old NB shoes and that added to the struggle. I was like 0-5 on kickflips and kind of rolled my ankle on one. Dave was doing back 50s, ride on front tails, slappy noseslides and stuff. I was trying back 180 off the little kicker then switch front crook on the curb. It never worked, it was hard to land and be setup for the curb. Then it started pouring.

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So we went to Redder Curbs and had to warm up all over again. We did a few runs around the garage before sticking with no comply flips. Dave got his first. Can’t believe how close we got to back to back. That would have been so awesome. I really struggled with kickflips. My legs were hurting so bad. I think this is it for vulcs again. I would eventually kickflip over the parking block, but it was not easy and I was squatting for like 20 feet after since my legs could barely handle it. Ugh. Dave got a switch no comply over the parking block. He had some good back 50s on the kinked curb, slappy crooks, slappy feebles. I had a couple slow front 50s. Almost gave up on skating, but decided to stretch. It helped, but not much. Then we hucked 360 flips off a little kicker for awhile. Dave got insanely close once. I hurt too much so I sat and watched Dave.

(setup 8.25″ null rabethica deck, venture 5.2 AWAKE lows, venom 90a bushings, 1/8″ riser, spitfire 101a 51mm F4 wheels, 3 washers on the inside of each axle, nbnumeric 344 white size 11.5 with spenco 3/4 thinsole and footprints 5mm kingfoam insoles)

After a long hot day at the zoo without eating (no GF DF options) I met Joe, Dan and Eric at the Omaha part on a hot evening. I was late so they were already warmed up. I had originally thought I wouldn’t be able to skate at all, but my foot started feeling better. Unlike the previous day I would struggle with crooks. Lame! Dan had to leave, but not before he did a front 50 to manual to boardslide. So good. Matt and Joe were rifling off their ledge tricks. Both are so good. I took a long time to land anything, but had a brief period of okness. Did a slow halfcab noseslide then a kickflip on the bottom of the qp. Also a switch front noseslide then a switch noseslide shove out. Joe did front 5-0 to front board. Matt lipslid the rail. Joe got a line of front 50 shove the tall ledge then fakie flip the bank. Matt got nollie back heel on the bank. I did a kickflip on it but couldn’t get the noseslide 270 shove. A couple tries were close. What a perfect ledge for it.

We played a game of skate. Joe and matt got me with non-flip tricks. Those lame-ohs. Ha ha. It was fun, but matt did nollie 3 shoves both ways. I tried 360 flips after that and couldn’t quite get them. Matt got a perfect switch tre though! Amazing. Fun session. Those dudes rule.

(setup 8.25″ null rabethica deck, venture 5.2 AWAKE lows, venom 90a bushings, 1/16″ riser, old spitfire 101a 50mm F4 wheels, 3 washers on the inside of each axle, nbnumeric 254 cream/gum size 12 with spenco 3/4 thinsole and footprints 5mm kingfoam insoles)

I arrived on a hot morning to a heated old guy session. There was about 10 dudes these ripping. Now when I say old I only mean 30 something. If that. But for Omaha it’s old. Most of the skaters I see there are really young. So I was a little intimidated and mostly messed around for awhile. Got a bs flip on the bank, some bean plants, etc. On the ledge I was 100% on crooks. Felt rad! Did a lot of switch noseslides. Eventually the crowd thinned out and I felt a little looser. Ollied onto the taller ledge, got some slow front 50s on the regular ledge, almost no comply flip the parking block. My back foot PF really started hurting. Ugh. I got an ollie onto the taller ledge and 180’d off. I left a big sweaty mess.

(setup 8.25″ null rabethica deck, venture 5.2 AWAKE lows, venom 90a bushings, 1/16″ riser, old spitfire 101a 50mm F4 wheels, 3 washers on the inside of each axle, nbnumeric 254 cream/gum size 12 with spenco 3/4 thinsole and footprints 5mm kingfoam insoles)

Joe, Damon and I went to Crisis then after some chilling we ended up at Safeway ledge. Warming up was whatever then Joe called out a game of SKATE on the ledge. It ended up being pretty fun. I was bummed on bailing back 50s, but first try front 50 shove, halfcab noseslide, fakie 50 felt good. Joe did a fakie smith to forward. Damon and I got some funny versions where we landed in grind and fell off. But they counted! Joe won the game on a nollie front 50. Then we messed around for awhile. Joe got a front smith. Damon fakie flip front tail. I got switch noseslide 270 out.

Fuzz showed and we were off to denver. Apparently it had rained some and civic was wet. We ended up at the metal grate spot and we skated it like the dorks we are. Well, some of us. Damon was doing fakie ollies in and out. Fuzz, Joe and I were doing ollies in, stalls on the inside curbs, and coming out randomly. It was fun once I was warmed up enough to ollie the little curb. Yeah, it took awhile. Ugh. I ended up doing ollie in, wallie nollie then no comply grab out. The wallie nollie felt great. Joe and Fuzz did a million tricks. Pivots, smith, shove, etc. Fuzz had the hot boneless wallride. Dave had shown. He was doing more ollies on nearby ledges, but the fakie wallride was sick. Joe had is ollie out and my knee didn’t like that. It would spell the end of my night.

Well, after some slappys on a nearby curb/ledge. Damon went off. Front 50, 180 out, shove out. Joe 50d it. Dave slappy crook and almost boardslide to fakie. Fuzz switch noseslide.

We eventually got the boot and ended at this bank to curb with some homeless people. It was a little surreal, but awesome. Joe and Damon skated. The rest of us hung out while they drank and smoked crack. It was crazy. One dude knew a lot about skating.

We hit the Wells Fargo slappy curbs for a bit, well, everyone but fuzz and I. We talked about how we’ve started to understand how people stop skateboarding. We aren’t there yet, but it hurts so much and is getting so much harder. Which is kind of funny because Dave is older and he kept on ripping. Slappy feeble! The last spot was a fun watch. Damon and dave hit the 3 stair to quick drop. Daves ollie then back 180 was amazing.

(setup 8.25″ null rabethica deck, venture 5.2 AWAKE lows, venom 90a bushings, 1/16″ riser, old spitfire 101a 50mm F4 wheels, 3 washers on the inside of each axle, nbnumeric 254 cream/gum size 12 with spenco 3/4 thinsole and footprints 5mm kingfoam insoles)