Work the late shift so decided to flatground friday before work. I had changed my setup slightly. I put on forged baseplates and bones wheels. I liked the changes. I didn’t skate very well or try too hard, but it was an alright session. Got kickflips, fakie flip, halfcab flip, f/s halfcab flip, heelflip and hands down treflip. Somehow that was enough. I only had about 30 minutes to skate. I wish I had brought a skate tool because the trucks felt way too loose so besides knee pain that’s my backup excuse.

(setup 8.25 null spanbauer deck, thunder 148 trucks, bones stf 51mm v1 wheels, venom 91a bushings, es accel slim asta size 12, pinnacle powerstep orthotic insoles)
(knee pain level 4/10)

On a nice night I did what I always do. Skate. I wasn’t sure which shoes I would wear so I started at the house/school just messing around in some Es Swifts. I didn’t like how they felt so I put on my Tom Asta Accel Slims that I thought were too big, but they felt pretty good. So once I decided on shoes I went to the ledge. I started out with some noseslides that felt good. Then a boardslide pop out. Made myself do a back 50 before I could try crooks. I got another one of the worst ones ever. The bigger wheels I had put on this setup were annoying me. After the bad back 50 I tried a line. Ollie up the curb, wallride nollie, back 180 off the curb, halfcab flip on flat, ollie up the curb, crooks. The trick I struggled with the most was back 180, but once I got it I got the line. It was pretty rewarding. Although I tried to keep it going and I slammed pretty bad ollieing up the curb before the weird manny pad/gap thing. The sprinklers came on around then making frontside hard. I was trying front noseslides, but not doing good. Tried some front 50s and never got into it. Couldn’t get halfcab noseslide. Flip tricks were whatever, the old board I was riding felt really old. Then I went home.

(setup 8.25 null spanbauer deck, thunder 148 trucks, spitfire 52mm radial slim 101a green/black swirl wheels, venom 91a bushings, es accell slim asta size 12, pinnacle powerstep orthotic insoles)
(knee pain level 4/10)