Left work early. It had rained a little so I avoided dog park and went to the basketball ledges. There were some puddles there too, but not enough to mess with it so much. I started off terribly. I couldn’t do anything. Then kind of out of nowhere I did a line that changed everything. Halfcab noseslide, heelflip on flat (the heelflip felt so great), front 50 (well, more of a front axle stall), front noseslide. After that I had motivation and tried harder. Got a couple crooks, switch front noseslides. Finally started getting on front 50s with some consistency and a tiny bit of speed. Almost got front 50 shove. Then some people showed up to play basketball. I still skated the outside ledges. Got a noseslide shove, switch front nose to forward. Then kind of ran out of steam so I left for the dog park.

At the dog park I rewarmed up with some 3 trick lines. I started real basic then got slightly harder until I went for the Ironman challenge (kickflip, heelflip, treflip). It was fun I was skating pretty hard and the kickflip and heelflip were fast enough to be a little scary. I didn’t get too many clean heelflips though so I was going pretty close when it came time to treflip. But I kept not landing the treflip. I would finally get it, but put a hand down. Oh well. It was a battle and I was over it. I hucked some switch tres, nollie/switch heels, halfcab heels for a bit then ollied the cone. I had a few clean ones, but the one I slightly touched it adds some character. I like having that cone to ollie. For those of you paying too close of attention, I will say the size 12 Accel Slim is too big, the 11.5s I had last time skate better.

(setup 8.38 null perception deck, indy 149 ray barbee trucks, oj 52mm ez edge insane-a-thane wheels, bones medium bushings, es accel slim navy/white asta size 12, footprint gamechanger low profile insole)

After a long day at work I wanted to get some skating in. My body wasn’t feeling great and I didn’t have the motivation to go anywhere so I just went in front of my house. I had a rough goal of doing 20 tricks then going back inside and watching Stranger Things with the family. I started off with the basics. It was still over 90 degrees so the street was a little melted which makes for some weird slow downs/stops sometimes. After about 10 warm up tricks without any flippers I started flipping. I got a few. The melted street was not helping things. Kickflip, fakie flip, halfcab flip, b/s flip, heelflip. Took a long time to get a 360 flip and it was terrible. As soon as I struggle with treflips I want away from Indys. Ha, not gonna bail out this quick though. I got a rare (and terrible) halfcab heel. I hucked quite a bit, it seems like nollie heels are possible. I’ve learned to put my back foot forward and it seems like I just need to commit rather than posing them now. Couldn’t get nollie tre or nollie bigflip. Hucked a few switch tres, switch heels. It was mostly a struggle fest, but whatevs, I skated and tried some stuff.

(setup 8.38 null perception deck, indy 149 ray barbee trucks, oj 52mm ez edge insane-a-thane wheels, bones medium bushings, es accel slim navy/white asta size 12, footprint gamechanger low profile insole)