On a very nice night I went over to the slappy curb feeling lazy and to meet Saul. I couldn’t decide which size board to setup, but luckily I found an old 8.3 with a slightly cracked tail to mount up for now. I also put some old Spitfires on because pushing on that rough asphalt is hard on Bones. Slappies were working. Backside is so fun. Saul showed shortly after me. He was getting almost two sections. So amazing. We each had some okay frontside ones, but definitely not as locked in as backside. The slightly smaller board didn’t seem to flip any better. Maybe it’s the wider wheels. Maybe it just really doesn’t matter. I tried a few other slappies like switch crook, front crook, hurricane, but nothing really worked out. Saul had a nice slappy into the steeper curb cut. Also almost around the corner below. Fun mellow session.

(setup 8.38″ null lazer deck, venture ftc 5.8s, doh dohs bushings (blue 88a barrel boardside one, yellow 92a roadside) no boardside washer, spitfire f4 radials 52mm blue/yellow swirl wheels with all washers on the inside, new balance numeric 379 brown/gum size 12, rubbery lakai insoles)
(pain level 4/10)

On a super nice night I met up with Rob, Sean, Kevin and eventually Carleigh at a very crowded Broomfield park. Luckily it thinned out quickly, but it was chaos for awhile. The middle lane was kinda chill though and Kevin and Sean were starting off on flat. I joined in on the 3 makes program. Kevin was on nollie f/s flip before I had gotten to halfcab flip. Sean rattled off tricks too. Rob had done a few kickflips and was lining out the ledges. I was happy to get the halfcab flips and then went for treflip. Got two horrible ones and luckily the third worked out good enough. Carleigh had shown and was skating the bowl. Kevin and Sean were on the black ledge. Rob and I were around the manny pad. I got jealous of Rob’s long lines and tried to get some too. But it’s hard when you’re disappointed in every trick you land. Ha. Rob had front 50 back 180, fakie nosegrind, fakie nosegrind 180, back 50 the downhill ledge. Ripping. I think there was a b/s flip on flat too. I had a fakie 50 to fakie which I haven’t done in awhile, some terrible back 50s. Yikes, that’s about it. Then I started trying the black ledge too. Was trying a line of front 50, dork double rock the wedge, kick 50 the blue ledge. Got close. Then started trying kickflip to fakie on the wedge. Sean did that line above casually a bit earlier. Mike had come too. I didn’t even really see him skate before he broke his board. Kevin started trying nollie flip to fakie on the wedge. He got it quick. Then switch flip too. Carleigh took a bit to get front d, then did back d real quick on the brick qp. I had a pretty high percentage on front 50s for awhile, but then started to flail so started just ollieing onto the black ledge instead for the setup for the kickflip to fakie. Sean was doing a sick line to get to fakie flip on the wedge. Back 5-0 front 180 out the happy ledge, front 50 back 180 the happy ledge, fakie flip. He got it and added a nollie back heel to the line. Wow. I eventually focused my board after a failed kickflip to fakie. Then I borrowed Sean’s board and did perhaps the worst kickflip to fakie that’s ever been done. I was super sore, I need thicker insoles.

(setup 8.5″ null lazer deck, venture ftc 5.8s, doh dohs bushings (blue 88a barrel boardside one, yellow 92a roadside) no boardside washer, bones stf v1 pj 53mm wheels, new balance numeric 379 brown/gum size 12, nb# westgate insoles)
(pain level 7/10)