I made the cardinal sin of saying ‘I like my setup’ a couple days ago at Broomfield. Ever since then the obsession for low trucks started. But rather than change my setup I just setup a complete from old stuff laying in the garage. So I went to campus feeling a little sick with both completes. I started with slappy crooks on the meetup curb with the smaller setup and the slappies felt great so I moved down the hill. I went to the flagstone ledge area which was wet, but I still wanted to see how easy getting into 50s were. They were whatever, but hucking flip tricks definitely felt easier. Then I moved down to the weird skate stopped big 3 area and tried a line for awhile. Pop shove, nose stall a tallish ledge, try to ollie onto the narrow skate stopped ledge. The lower trucks felt better for noseslides and getting on the ledge (even though I never really got it), but man, the pop shoves and wheelbite were so bad. So I went and got my other setup. Pop shoves felt infinitely better on it, but the nosestall much worse. I still didn’t get the ollie anyway. Then I went back to the flagstone ledge and luckily 50s were much easier on the bigger setup so I stuck with it as I moved into campus. Except now I was super tired. I went to the tiny yellow ledge that is harder to skate now thanks to the added bike racks. All I did were a few back 50s. Then I walked back to the car. Totally lame night. I can’t say I really liked either setup.

(setups 8.25 with venture wides or 8 with venture 5.2 low)
(pain level legs felt okay after a day off, but my head was feeling woozy)

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