Still feeling like garbage with the added bonus of pinkeye I went to Broomfield park on a sunny afternoon to meet Sean and Kevin. When I arrived they were doing flippers. Sean was going fakie, Kevin nollie. Same tricks with the opposite stance. I just kind of played around on whatever. Trying hard tricks like 50 on the blue ledge. Ugh. Then we mostly skated the black ledge area. Well, those dudes “skated”, I struggled. Kevin did a dream line twice. Nollie front 180 into the little bank, switch nosegrind 180, back smith stall the brick qp, nollie nosegrind, nollie tre out of the bank. Full pull! Sean went through all of this tricks. The back lips to front 270 shove were so good. I tried a line of switch 180 into the bank, crooks, turn around, front 50, treflip out of the bank. Landed on the treflip, but never rode away. Got a couple front shoves out of 50. Since Sean and Kevin did halfcab flips out of the bank I did too. Pretty fun. Sean was doing f/s halfcab flip out too. So good. Kevin nearly died trying it because the board shot up and nailed him in the hand luckily saving his face. That was pretty much it. Sean added fakie 5-0 to his list of tricks.

(setup 8.38 null lazer deck, venture ftc 5.8s with forged baseplate, venom 88a bushings, bones stf v1 pj 53mm wheels with all washers on the outside, new balance numeric 379 tan size 12, stock insoles)
(pain level 4/10 sickness aches and some arthritis in my left ankle)

After not skating all week because I was sick (and the weather sucked) I had to get out on a breezy sunny afternoon. I went to meet Dave at the valmont manny pads, but the sunny ones were wet, and the other side was in the shade. So I started dorking around across the street in the sun. I was just kind of dorking around as I felt really out it. I front 180’d up a curb to weird tail stall shove out on the ultra mini bank. Then I was trying to manual to axle stall. Dave showed up. We ended up skating the “Jack gap” for awhile. We did a lot of transfer stuff. Dave thought the back feeble transfer was easier, I thought it was easier frontside. Dave got a no comply from the curb site, I don’t think I did. I got lucky with an ollie from the curb side, but Dave took a hard slam hanging up on the last inch of grass. Ouch. Dave tried some Natas stalls on the pipe in the background. It looked so scary, luckily he got out of them safely. I did the transfer shove thing which was really fun. Dave did a rock shove transfer. Dave’s cab transfer was sick. Both of us bailed our flatground trick after. Then we went across to the shaded manual pad where Dave did manual then nose manual first try. It took me so long that Dave had left before I got it. I did at least get a 360 flip on my first real try. Dave was going for a mega line adding nollie back 180 and switch nose manual to the line. He did a switch nose manual to regular manual which was really sick. It felt good to skate again. I can’t wait to feel better.

(setup 8.38 null lazer deck, venture ftc 5.8s with forged baseplate, venom 88a bushings, bones stf v1 pj 53mm wheels with all washers on the outside, new balance numeric 379 tan size 12, stock insoles)
(pain level 6/10 sickness aches and some arthritis in my left ankle)