On a very cold day New Years Day I went to the Steelyards garage to meet up with Sean and Carleigh. I got there first. It was colder in there than I remember. But man, that curb is so fun. I was getting into some grinds pretty quickly. Sean showed next. We brought his flat bar out that is pretty tall, it took me a few tries to boardslide it. I had done some basic flippers, but nothing much, some basic curb tricks, but not much. Sean came out and was immediately doing his tricks. I guess I should say he did at least do his dynamic stretching first. Carleigh showed shortly after that. She made boardsliding the flatbar look easy. I had to really focus to ollie that high. We were all doing our own thing for awhile. I got a front 50 back 180 out, nollie front 5-0 and some switch crook jibs. Sean was doing variations of the line in the video. Lots of pop and energy. Carleigh started in on learning back 50s and was getting closer with each try. I filmed Sean do his line and Carleigh try back 50s. In between tries I started hucking a dream trick front shove back 50. I would eventually start committing and several minutes later I kind of got it. Carleigh got back 50 a few tries later. Sean learned switch front 5-0 too. That’s new tricks for all of us to start the year!

(setup null 8.25 lazer deck, 5.8 venture FTC trucks with forged baseplate, doh dohs bushings (blue 88a barrel bottom one, yellow 92a small top one), no washers inside each axle, spitfire f4 99a classic 52mm green/yellow swirl wheels, adidas busenitz vulc b/w size 12 with stock insoles)
(pain level 3/10 felt pretty cold)