Last day at work for a couple weeks! To celebrate after work I took a nap. Ha ha. After dinner I went to the research ledge. The temp was decent in the low 40s. There was a few students standing waiting for the bus which was annoying to warm up while they watched. But my first noseslide and noseslide fakie worked out. Then some boardslides fall out. Then the ol’ crooks which is so fun there. I got a really bad back 50/stall kinda quick which was nice too. Which allowed me to do another crooks which was even more fun than the first. Halfcab noseslide was next, got a really slow and bad one. I forgot how tall that ledge is. Had a few kickflips on flat, backside flip, almost a fakie tre, landed on some heelflips. Tried crooks shove for a bit, but mostly just did some fun feeling crooks. Got another sloppy back 50, then a clean back 5-0 on accident. Ha, it felt awesome even though I basically came to a halt on it. Hucked some front smiths without getting into it, front noseslides, got one slow front 50. Switch front noseslide. Tried halfcab crooks for a bit without getting close. Then ended with another fun crooks and called it a night.

(setup 8.5 null lazer deck, 5.8 venture black icon trucks, venom 90a bushings, 3 washers inside each axle, bones 51mm stf pj v1 wheels, lakai proto white/black 11.5, thin rubbery adidas insoles)
(pain level 1/10 very slight knee pain)

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Heated session this afternoon! Thanks for stopping by the #squarehousewarehouse @corpoglenny and @baffoos

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After work on a nice day I went to Square State to check it out, sell some boards, hang with Brian and hopefully skate some. I was pretty blown away by how cool it is in there. I mean I shouldn’t be surprised that Brian decorated and made it fun to hang out at. But it was still impressive. We did some business then started skating. Brian wasn’t supposed to, but I had some shoes he could borrow and we messed around. Kevin had been in the are for a dentist appt and joined up. There was a kid there Ashton that is cool. Quin had left. Kevin had no problems warming up and kickflipped and switch flipped up the euro right away. I always find it disorienting to skate in an indoor park. I’m not sure what it is, but as long as I can remember it throws me off. We started with a bounce off the lower qp onto the upper one then ride back down over the low one. I was last. No surprises there. Brian also did it to rock fakie. Kevin did it frontside too. Then I went in on Dave’s latest challenge to me. Kickflip rock fakie. Brian played with me and was was trying impossible nosepick fakies. Whoa! I had a bunch that I committed to, but the board was upside down. It took about 30 minutes, but I got it and I have to admit it felt pretty cool. Brian got close, but stopped when I moved on. He wasn’t supposed to be skating anyway. I was impressed with his lack of slams. We used to joke about how I was the guy who bailed and he was the guy who slammed. Kevin had done like 30 tricks on the ledge. I couldn’t crooks or 50 the regular one, but I had fun trying back 50 and nosegrinds on the little ledge. All in all a fun time and I look forward to going back.

(setup 8.5 null lazer deck, 5.8 venture black icon trucks, venom 90a bushings, 3 washers inside each axle, bones 51mm stf pj v1 wheels, lakai proto white/black 11.5, thin rubbery adidas insoles)
(pain level 2/10 not much pain but felt very disoriented)

It took 3 days to recover from the front shove session. Man I was so sore for two days. It was brutal. I had gone to 303 and picked up the new TWS Duets video and watched it. Man it was good. Franky Villani did a weird sex change trick at some point and I knew I’d want to try some variation of one in the garage. But I started with the shoves, worked in to kickflip. Actually tried backside bigspin for awhile until I got a really bad one. It was fun though. Then worked through a few basics. Fakie flip, halfcab flip, backside flip, heelflip (cracked my board pretty good on it doh), treflip. Lots of these landings I call garage landings. Since I have to go so slow it makes for some awkward landings. Then I went in on the fakie sex change which felt really fun. Took about 10 minutes to get one. Then I hucked a few other life goal flippers. Switch f/s flip, nollie front heel, neither were close. Tried switch varial flip and didn’t get both feet on. Doh.

(setup 8.5 null lazer deck, 5.8 venture black icon trucks, venom 90a bushings, 3 washers inside each axle, bones 51mm stf pj v1 wheels, lakai proto white/black 11.5, thin rubbery adidas insoles)
(pain level 2/10 some plantar fasciitis pain)

While waiting for people to arrive I went across the street and started warming up on the curb. I didn’t feel great, but had some fun basic grinds. Rob showed and joined in on the fun. Then Kevin, Fuzz, Jack and Carleigh. I was trying front 50 nollie shove out, then up the curb and front shove off. Took a long time. Argh. Rob was doing back 180 fakie 50s, slappy crooks, etc. Kevin did some flip in 50s, switch/nollie tricks. Out of nowhere Rob did a sick line of back 50 shove then front shove back 50. Whoa! We went to film it around the time Jack and Carleigh showed. Carleigh landed every kickflip I saw. Jack did a cab back tail. The wind kicked up and the vibe changed and the filming didn’t go so well. At least Rob kept his board in one piece.

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While I am completely honored to be named #stubbornoftheyear sometimes I wish I could just land a trick. #ilovemyfriends #thestubborns #icouldnotwalkafterthis #over40skateboarding #thisisonlyhalftheslams #soty #dentist5

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Then we went to the Dentist 5 where Chad, Sean and eventually Eric met us. I think Carleigh had some trick ideas there and Kevin and I did too. I took the longest to ollie it and could only do it in a line. Sean’s casual ollies and 180s were so sick. Jack did back 180 one foot right away. Fuzz ollied it pretty easy. After awhile Kevin and I got into our lines taking turns filming each other. I was going for no comply shove up the curb then front shove down the 5. He was going for back 180 up, switch front shove down. Jack was hucking nollie tres, pressure 360 flips, manual varial heels, basically whatever. Carleigh was in the mix doing wallies up no comply down. I was hyped that I started committing to front shoves within a few tries. I think Carleigh got her line first. She stomped that no comply! Kevin took a bit, but he got a good switch front shove down that set! Sean had started filming us. I committed probably 50 times, but never landed it. I was so exhausted. I wasn’t bummed when I finally gave up though. It felt good to try so hard. Obviously I would have preferred to land it, but oh well, skateboarding is hard. Fuzz had done f/s halfcab first try, fakie ollie. Eric showed up and was heelflipping in the street and ollieing the 5. Carleigh went back for more and got a line to kickflip. Kevin was the last man standing going for switch flip and got oh so close. It eventually got dark and we went for margs.

(setup 8.5 null lazer deck, 5.8 venture black icon trucks, venom 90a bushings, 3 washers inside each axle, bones 51mm stf pj v1 wheels, lakai proto white/black 11.5, thin rubbery adidas insoles)
(pain level 3/10 got to a point where my knees were sore, but not too bad. guess these shoes are alright!)

Got out to dog park on a cool friday. Rob and I got there around the same time. Warming up didn’t go so well for me. At one point I shot my board out because I missed a kickflip. I was really angry. But it came together kind of. I know Rob had a long line. I forget all of the tricks, but like 6 of them in a row. We started a game of SKATE and had missed kickflip and heelflip when Eric showed. So we kind of started over but were all going for heelflips. It took surprisingly long for us. Rob got his first then Eric and I both got ours too. Pretty cool it worked out like that. The game kind of dissolved for awhile, but Rob and I kept at it. Rob got a fakie flip which I normally give him a letter on. We did f/s cabs. He got me with fakie 3 shove. At times we had all tried halfcab heels. Eric was getting really close. He also got a fakie heel then heel line. I got a first try fs halfcab heel. At the end I tried fakie bigflip and treflip until I got one. I got a sloppy tre and we was out.

(setup 8.5 null lazer deck, 5.8 venture black icon trucks, venom 90a bushings, 3 washers inside each axle, bones 51mm stf pj v1 wheels, lakai proto white/black 11.5, thin rubbery adidas insoles)
(pain level 2/10)

On a cool morning I went to Boulder park before work. It was cloudy out and I was enjoying it. I didn’t have a plan and I had the whole park to myself so I was all over the place. I never really stuck to anything for awhile, just going all over trying random things. I spent a little more time in the halfpipe area as Dave had challenged me to kickflip rock fakie. I realized I haven’t even done a rock fakie on anything other than the quartapotty in a very long time. I tried a few kickflip rock fakies. They seem doable. Maybe on something a little lower would be better for me. I’m a chicken. I kinda tried a line for awhile. Crooks down the hubba (I would only grind about a foot at the most), back noseslide the bump to ledge, kickflip the little kicker, roll in to the tiny part of the bowl, then flyout ollie over a grocery cart. I wasn’t able to commit to the roll in or fly out. Doh. I took a few tries to get a slow front 50 across and down the ledge. Last thing I tried was a little hip line. Frontside ollie (after rolling down the bank they were scary going that fast), turn around backside ollie, turn around, b/s flip the hip. Got a slow one in about 10 tries. It still felt cool though.

(setup 8.5 null lazer deck, 5.8 venture black icon trucks, venom 90a bushings, 3 washers inside each axle, bones 51mm stf pj v1 wheels, lakai proto white/black 11.5, thin rubbery adidas insoles)
(pain level 1/10 felt great didn’t get sore)

Went out to the garage because it was kinda cold and it was getting late. I messed around with the no pop manuals for a bit then went into hucking flippers. Took a couple tries to get a kickflip, b/s flip first try. Then kinda did 5 tries at various tricks. Mostly ones I can’t do like nollie flip, nollie front heel, switch fs flip. Got a heelflip on the 5th try, got a super sketchy treflip on the 5th try too. Ollie had come out. He was struggling with shoves then saw me randomly try and ollie grab and so we tried them together. He got a decent one and we called it a night.

(setup 8.5 null lazer deck, 5.8 venture black icon trucks, venom 90a bushings, 3 washers inside each axle, bones 51mm stf pj v1 wheels, lakai proto white/black 11.5, thin rubbery adidas insoles)
(pain level 3/10 felt kinda sore for whatever reason)

In a crisp morning I went to the dog park before work. I had some new shoes on. Lakai Protos. Aka Tony Hawk’s shoe. I feel like I should try them because he is tall, old and kind of awkward too. I was skeptical of how bulky they felt, but on my warm up process they felt really good. Even got my first few kickflips. But then I started to fail at kickflips and I thought I’d be switching shoes back. But I stuck with it and they actually felt really good. Got the kickflip, no comply 180, fakie flip warm up line. First try b/s flip. Struggled with halfcab flip. Tried to line out pop shove then treflip, but kept not landing on the treflip. Tried to land on heelflip then nollie tre, but never got the nollie tre. The heelflips felt sketch, but they kinda worked. I hucked a few other flippers like switch f/s flip, nollie flip and nollie front heel. I committed to nollie flip, but none of them were close. At the end I was losing motivation and took a few tries to get a fakie bigflip then a treflip. The new shoes pass the first test .. flatground.

(setup 8.5 null lazer deck, 5.8 venture black icon trucks, venom 90a bushings, 3 washers inside each axle, bones 51mm stf pj v1 wheels, lakai proto white/black 11.5, thin rubbery adidas insoles)
(pain level 1/10 felt great didn’t get sore)

After my disappointing outing yesterday I went to sleep angry and wanting to skate. Since I work the late shift and it was super nice out I left early for work with the plan of going to dog park to skate flat. Instead I saw no one was at Boulder park so I pulled in. I pumped around a couple times. Then had a fun warm up line of back tail stall on the mellow bank then front tailslide the little hip. A couple other people showed up, but mostly stuck in the bowl. I had started a line that got longer with each bail until I finally settled on it. Front 50 across and down the little ledge, go around, come out of the qp, noseslide down the ledge, tail stall drop in thing on the weird hump, manual the pyramid, kickflip over the b/s hip. I would often deviate from the line or do other tricks (kickflip tricks on the little bank up top, ollies on the hips). The line took a long time, but was pretty rewarding when I got it. I tried to add b/s flip to the end, but didn’t quite get it. Then it was off to work. Can’t believe how nice and warm it was. I should mention that the Es Swifts were annoying me. Sure they are comfy and flexible, but somehow they have no board feel. I sense a change coming.

(setup 8.5 null lazer deck, 5.8 venture black icon trucks, venom 90a bushings, 3 washers inside each axle, bones 51mm stf pj v1 wheels, es swift 1.5 navy/clear size 11.5, stock insoles)
(pain level 4/10)

Feeling very uninspired on a dreary Sunday I went across the street to try and finish Dave’s challenge. Halfcab back 50. I did a few warmups and kind of went right into it. I was having fun at first and getting close. I actually got into nosegrind a few times as aiming for my front truck seemed to work better. I also tried front 5-0 kickflip out going the other way along with a few basic flippers. After awhile of getting close and not landing it I started to get very angry. I moved to the lowest part of the curb and still couldn’t get it and I snapped and focused my board. Ugh. Worst feeling ever. Luckily it was pretty cracked at least so it wasn’t the worst move, but it’s still a terrible feeling to get to that level.

(setup 8.5 null lazer deck, 5.8 venture black icon trucks, venom 90a bushings, 3 washers inside each axle, bones 51mm stf pj v1 wheels, es swift 1.5 navy/clear size 11.5, stock insoles)
(pain level 2/10 but zero motivation)