Met Rob at Dog Park on a cool day that I had off work to edit. It was colder than I thought it would be. We did some warming up, then talked to a dude for awhile then got back at it. Rob wasn’t really feeling it and did a lot of manuals and 180s before some quick footed 4 trick line. I think it was back 180, cab, fakie flip. Huh, that’s only 3 eh? Ha, there was a backside flip too. I had gotten a few of my flippers and hucked even more. I had a couple tricks on Eric’s ledge. Boardslide, noseslide and crooks. We played a game of SKATE. It was an odd one. I got a defensive cab at least. I couldn’t get halfcab flip or heelflip in the game. Got a slow backside flip, got a lot of wheelbite. Got a letter on no comply finger flip. Looking back I can’t believe I didn’t double down on that one. I got outed on a fakie 3 shove. After that I eeked out a sketchy hands down 360 flip and it was a day.

(setup null 8.5 perception deck, 5.8 venture black icon trucks, venom 90a bushings, 2 washers inside each axle, spitfire f4 radial blue/yellow swirl 52mm 99a wheels, new balance numeric 212 cream size 11.5, stock insoles)
(pain level 2/10)

Having a chill day mostly editing I went over to Creekside with Ollie after putting some new wheels on (Spitfire 52mm radial swirls). It was cold out. I felt the relieve of no video part tricks to film anymore and was having fun messing around. Got front 50 back 180, front and back 50 shoves, front 5-0, slappy crooks, front 50 body varial, some basic flippers. I had a good time. Ollie came close to landing his fist fakie bigspin and got into several front 50s, but never landed one.

setup null 8.5 perception deck, 5.8 venture black icon trucks, venom 90a bushings, 2 washers inside each axle, spitfire f4 radial blue/yellow swirl 52mm 99a wheels, new balance numeric 212 cream size 11.5, stock insoles)
(pain level 3/10 it was cold)

It was supposed to be windy and rainy, but it was nice out. We met up at Red Hawk. Dave and I got there at the same time. Sean and Rob shortly later. We had warmed up on the slappy curb for a bit. I was feeling okay on my skateboard, but still with some sore heels from the Dentist 5 session. Dave had done a good 50 I think before Sean got on the ledges and immediately 50’d, 5-0d, nosegrinded, etc with ease. Rob mostly sat out the session to save his legs for later (it worked!). I started hucking my dream trick (kick front board) and it seemed doable. Oh yeah, I had a new board since I had broke mine at the dentist, this time back to 8.5. It felt good. Dave signed up to film me. Poor guy. I ended up trying a line of halfcab flip, nollie front tail, kickflip front board. I struggled with halfcab flips, but somehow the nollie tail worked. The kick front board landed in darkslide more times then not. Then the wind really kicked in and the clouds came in. Argh. I got my line. I had a few decent halfcab flips, but the one I landed in the line was beyond terrible. The kick front board was a quick jib. Still, it was cool to do all of them in a row, but I don’t think it’ll make the Stubborns cut. Sorry Dave. Sean had been trying a line he wanted. Fakie 50, fakie tail 270 shove. I flimed him do it in a few tries. Dave was maybe gonna try a trick, but the wind was beyond insane and rain had started.

View this post on Instagram

#thestubborns

A post shared by Rob Helmstetter (@43shifty) on Nov 24, 2018 at 2:21pm PST

Off to yellow curbs we went. There was another crew there when we arrived. One older dude Jason that we knew, good seeing him still ripping. We all did our thing. That garage has a tiny curb that’s so fun to slappy. I had a fun front 50 back 180 out, several slappy crooks, front slappy on the little part, back 50s and a no comply flip. Rob was getting it and Dave filmed him. He nailed like 3 lines with tricks I’ve rarely seen him do or never do at all. It was sick, you’ll have to wait for the vid. I tried a line of no comply flip then slappy front crook for a bit, but ended up giving up and filming Rob and Dave. Dave was doing some incredibly long front 5-0s and followed one up with a banger you will be seeing on December 7th.

setup null 8.5 perception 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, stock insoles)
(pain level 5/10 felt okay early but after the drive my body could not recover)