On a cold night I went into the garage with motivation. Kevin had made a comment while we were at 303 after the Sour video that 8.5″ decks look better with my big feet. I agree that it looks better, but I normally struggle with flippers. Anyway, I started on an 8.5″ complete I had in the garage that was intended for Saul’s. It had clumsy Spitfire 99a wheels on it. I swear those wheels feel like they absorb all pop right out of you. I don’t know how people skate them. After some basic warm ups I went for 3 tricks. Nollie varial flip, heelflip, treflip. I came very close to several nollie varial flips on the 8.5. I mixed in 8.25, 8″ completes and the 7.5″ putter too. Still couldn’t land one. I got a treflip on the normal 8.25. I never got a nollie varial flip. But I was most frustrated that I couldn’t heelflip to save my life. I finally got one on the putter. It felt pretty great, but didn’t erase the previous hour of depression. Skateboarding is so hard.

On a cold day Kevin came over and setup a new board. We watched the first 3 part of the Sour Solution 2 and it brought the hype. We started out at the meetup curb. We did kickflips to fakie on the tiny median kicker. Kevin added switch flip. I added slappy crooks.

We rolled down the hill to the weird dorky double hump manhole cover. Kevin was going for front blunt. I was trying some weird beanplant/boneless thing. Kevin was doing halfcab or kickflip off the oversized curb to line it out, I was trying switch 180s. Garrett showed up after this and we had kind of moved up to the ledge. He did a pretty sick line with a noseslide, treflip, 180 off the curb, switch pivot. He also did a first try nollie front noseslide. Kevin started with switch noseslides, did some good 5-0s, took awhile to get nollie front nose. I did a couple lame switch noseslide jibs in between bailing front 50s over and over. It was quite depressing. Then we moved east some more and ended up at these barriers for awhile. Kevin’s line of all of them in a row was so impressive. I only got a few into it. My wallrides were terrible. I did manage the backside then frontside rides which was fun. The grass ride was fun too. Garrett’s slam was so bad. It was snowing pretty hard at times. Then it took forever for Garrett to get the front shove wallride after he had done it 2nd try earlier. Fun times even though it was so cold.

(setup 8.25 null lazer deck, venture ftc 5.8s, venom 91a bushings, bones stf v1 pj 53mm wheels, new balance numeric 379 tan size 12, stock insoles)
(pain level 3/10)