Been wanting to get on this program for months now. On days I have off work I want to wake up early, skate flatground for an hour then do some yoga and chill for awhile before skating again. Today was the day to make it happen. Around 9am I went in front of the house. It was sunny and nice out. I started super basic with shoves then eased into the flippers. I was hyped on a first try heelflip. Struggled with halfcab flip for a bit. Got a first try nollie varial flip followed by a fakie varial flip. I couldn’t get a 360 flip though. I was close and committing, but maybe I can blame still having new shoes. Got sloppy fakie bigflip and b/s flip. Other tricks I tried, but didn’t land are nollie tre, nollie flip, switch heel, switch flip, halfcab heels, bs 360 kickflips, nollie inward heels. One of these days I hope to land some of these. Hucking the bs 360 flip felt doable.

After lunch I went to Lafayette to meet Dave and Phil after the wind had kicked in. My motivation was lacking (thanks Liz). Dave and Phil had been there for awhile. Phil’s boys were there too. They were cool. They reminded me of Ollie in that they were ready to leave whenever, but Phil kept wanting to skate. Ha. Phil was doing Ollie flyouts with his boys. Dave was shredding the way he does flowing around the park. I don’t remember doing much other than a kickflip on the mountain bank before a fun session ensued on the tiny steep qp by the entrance. Dave and Phil did front 5-0s. Dave did a bunch of tricks. Boardslide, back tail, feeble fakie, tailblock, showed Phil how easy rock fakies are, switch feeble fakie. Phil did back 50, front axle, rocks, and took awhile to get the scary rock fakie, fakie disaster, ollied off the qp. I did rocks, front/back axle stalls, feeble and took awhile to get a hurricane. I was happy to get it though. I did some flyout kickflips for a bit and intended to line them out with ledge tricks on the little black pad, but the wind was messing with me. Dave ‘had to go’. I chatted with Phil for awhile and the wind kept getting worse so I took off. Fun skating with those dudes.

(setup 8.125″ null maze deck, venture 5.25 awake lows, 52mm bones stf v5, bones medium bushings, new balance numeric 255 blue size 12, custom orthotic insoles)