Some really cool unique tricks in here and of course Tom Knox rules.

Went out to the garage not feeling particularly great on a cold night. I chose to wear the Suciu ADV shoes instead of a different old pair of shoes. They are not very grippy. Anyway, I started out with some of the shoves and stuff before digging in to nollie flips and heels. I never got close and I don’t know if I even made any progress. It was frustrating. I started hucking pressure flips though. I think I finally grasp the movements needed to do them. After awhile I gave up on nollie flip/heels and added 360 flips to my fail list (WTF!). I did manage heelflips and a terrible fakie heel. I got incredibly close to switch flip out of nowhere. That would have been great. All in all a pretty weak night.

(setup 7.5″ putter, Suicu ADV 10.5 with custom orthotic insole)

Out pretty early on a Sunday I got to Wilville feeling better. I started at the middle manny pad as there was some sun up there. I was trying to do two flip trick lines then nose manuals. It was fun. I got a few of the basic flippers when Saul showed so I moved down to the curb with him. I can’t say the curbs there are very good for slappying. We should wax up a section, but they are still fun enough. Saul had some good long slappies. I was not skating as well as I had hoped. I kept missing flip tricks trying to line things out. Damian showed. Jake a little later. Damian had good slappies as did Jake. I was trying a line of noseslide the end of a flagstone ledge, front 180 off a curb, halfcab flip then some slappies, but I never got the halfcab flip. Jake was ollieing onto the hubba thing and halfcabbing (both ways) off. I couldn’t ollie up it. Saul was doing slappy back 180s to fakie 50s. Pretty sick. Saul was the first to leave. Jake and I played a game of SKATE. It was not Jake’s day. I was up SKAT pretty quickly, but he did manage to get me with a treflip before I eventually got him with either varial flip or f/s halfcab flip. I was pretty much completely hating the bulky 868s by then. Damian was hanging with us still, trying treflips and stuff. Dude is cool.

Then we met Jack and Carleigh at a weird pipe spot that Carleigh shut down so we moved on to this other Jack spot which was way harder to skate than it looks. All I did was a side rock truck tap on the pipe thing. Jake did a scary looking front rock. Jack ollied to axle stall then into the whoop. Him and Jake also did tailblocks. Carleigh did a staple gun and easily the gnarliest trick of the session which was a kickturn on the top. Go there to understand it. Then we started cruising around to a park with a fun looking bank with stones on it, but the bank was that soft stuff they put in playgrounds these days. Jack still noseslid and back tailed a rock though. Carleigh did a cool bean plant over a rock to get his back. Then we all played on this zip line thing for awhile. Jake did a boardslide while holding on. It was so rad.

Then we saw this spot. Well, Jack saw it first and said he wanted to do something. So he started by kickflipping off the wood section then rode onto the ice. It didn’t break so naturally the next move would be to late shove onto it. He handled that quick. I couldn’t leave without trying something too. I eventually settled on a tail drop shove off the back ledge then a street plant onto the ice while holding the ledge on the end. Several tries later I skidded out of it. Man it felt awesome. I know it’s pretty dumb, but man it felt awesome. Oh yeah, Jack had ollied from the flat part onto the wavy dam then rolled into the ice. But he stuck and wasn’t able to slide out. Man how I love random spots. I do not like the bulky 868s though. They will not be skated again.

(setup 8.25″ null atomic cowboy deck, venture 5.25 awake lows, 50mm bones stf v1, 3 washers on the inside of each axle, white venture bushings, new balance numeric 868 black/gum size 12, custom orthotic insole