After a tough day at work I met up with Rob, Dave, Dave L and eventually Saul at Glenn Close. It was a super nice day. My first slappy attempt was a pretty violent fail. Wearing cupsoles and orthotics again is so tough, especially at the start of a session. Dave L was already doing long manuals and digging the new spot for him. Dave was trying to slappy crook the entire school. Rob was stacking back 50 variations quickly. Back 180 out, shove out, no comply out. My knee pain was still pretty severe, but finally showing some signs of letting up enough to let me skate. I still mostly avoided flip tricks though. I really didn’t do anything out of the ordinary. Oh, yeah, I had put an old 8.38 deck on. It felt alright. Dave L has super good slappies both ways and makes ollies up a curb look so easy. Rob did an amazing line. Back 180 into the curb cut, front shove out of the next kicker to street, front tailside then b/s flip. Definitely line of the day. He also had fakie nosegrinds and I tried to get one at the end of the session and kinda got one. Dave got a couple f/s halfcab flips, lots of kickflips, varial flip too I think? He is becoming a tech wizard. Saul can slappy so far. I think he did a full two sections. He also did layback slappy, hands on the hips, front slappies, front 50, alley oop slappy. OH yeah, I kind of got a slappy hurricane. Fun times. I hope my knee allows me to skate harder again soon.

(setup 8.38″ null lazer deck, venture ftc 5.8s, doh dohs bushings (blue 88a barrel boardside one, yellow 92a roadside), spitfire f4 classics 52mm green/yellow swirl wheels with 3 washers on the inside, adidas 3st.003 navy size 12, footprint gamechanger low profile insoles)
(pain level 7/10 mostly the right knee)

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