Met up with Jack and Sean at a double set rail near Jack’s house. Jack boardslid it before we got there then entertained us with some amazing bails before realizing the selfie cam was good enough.

Then we went to Red Hawk. Sean did all the 50s and 5-0s. Jack did bluntslides with some pop out or pivot shove out. Ha. I was feeling okay, struggling with front 50s, but the kickflip front board seemed close. Chad showed up and rolled around the place maybe once before we got the boot. Doh.

Off to Douglass it was. The sun was out and there was a couple high school kids there skating hard. They didn’t seem too bummed we barged their session. I played a game of SKATE with Sean while Jack did front smith to manual to kickflip out and front tail front heels out. Wow. That boy good. Sean beat me, but it was okay. I was wearing some old 212s since I just couldn’t handle the Tony Hawks anymore. They felt good. After the game of SKATE I had fun for awhile. Actual fun. Ha ha. Landed some crooks, noseslides, a 360 flip and a few front shoves off the training drop. Then I filmed Chad for a bit and he got a rad line for Stubborns. He’s got a wicked good back 5-0. Sean was going back 5-0 front 180 out on the longer ledges. Jack was playing around with tricks like front tail to 5-0, 5-0 to front nose, back tail, back nosegrind. I joined the ledge session. Had fun with some noseslides and stuff then tried to front 50 it. UGH. I probably tried 50 times and didn’t get one. I got into about 3 of them and even with Sean and Jack giving me advice I couldn’t get it. We left and I felt super depressed. I would blame it on getting old, but I’ve never had pop.

setup null 8.38 dream machine deck, 5.8 venture black icon trucks, venom 90a bushings, 3 washers outside each axle, bones 51mm stf pj v1 wheels, new balance numeric 212 cream size 11.5, vans ultracush insoles)
(pain level 4/10 that weird pain in my legs that seems to come from eating too much (any) dairy)

On a nice morning I worked on some Stubborns stuff then went to skate flat in front of the house. I told myself 10 flip tricks before I could leave. I got 10. Most weren’t pretty, but I did it. I think they were kickflip, fakie flip, halfcab flip, heelflip, both halfcab heelflips, 360 flip, b/s flip, fakie varial flip and varial flip.

Then I went to Douglass for a dream trick. Noseslide 270 shove. I was bummed to see that there was ice in the shade which made it a bit of a gap in. Argh. I tried though. And all things considered I got pretty close, but never rode away. Sean arrived and I eventually gave up. I had a weird new sharp pain in my knee. I filmed him get a banger line.

Then we went to research center so I could do crooks shove. I was sore and my first couple attempts at noseslides were terrible. Although Sean did laugh at my first trick being a switch front noseslide. I did get a crooks first try though so I thought that would be a good omen. Sean was running through tricks. Front 50, 50 180, 5-0, 5-0 180, 5-0 shove, tailslide, tailslide fakie then started hucking tailslide heelflip out. My phone died though and he was kind enough to film me try crooks shove. I don’t know how I didn’t land it. I really tried and I committed and it just didn’t work out. Doh.

setup null 8.38 dream machine deck, 5.8 venture black icon trucks, venom 90a bushings, 3 washers outside each axle, bones 51mm stf pj v1 wheels, lakai proto white/black 11.5, dc foamy insoles)
(pain level 4/10 some sharp knee pain at times)