After my first day back at work in a long time and a nap to recover I went to the dog park on a hot evening. This was my first time going there solo in the evening. There weren’t too many people. Tyler and Veronica were the only people I knew. It seems like a popular spot for college students. Maybe they used to go to the Boulder park, but I wouldn’t know because I never went there. I started out slow, immediately not liking my setup and at no point did I like my setup. I had put the wider axles on. I don’t like wider axles than deck width. Pretty quickly I had a couple great feeling crooks on the tall part of the black box. I tried again later (photo) and couldn’t do it. I messed around for awhile before wanting to try a line. Nose manual the box, ollie the kinked flatbar, wallie the barrier, treflip on flat, crooks the black box. I never got past the ollie. Ugh. I could barely nose manual too. It was kind of depressing. I did get the wallies basically every try at least. Got a halfcab flip. Couldn’t commit to nosegrind on the low part of the black ledge. Took a long time to back 50 it. Took even longer to halfcab noseslide the metal ledge. Argh. Couldn’t halfcab crook it either. Went home questioning everything.

(setup 8.25 Null Lazer deck, venture trucks 5.8 titanium axle on cast baseplate , venom 91a bushings, bones stf v2 51mm wheels, 3 washers on the outside of each axle, new balance numeric 212 maroon size 12, currex runpro medium arch insole )
(pain level 3/10)

After very little sleep we were up early to the York park since that’s where the family was going to pick me up. We were all sore and tired. Zoey joined us. She looks like she has a really fun time on a skateboard. It was cool. She had some side rocks, some board jump offs and stuff. Not sure how to write about it as they aren’t official olympic style tricks. Ha. Joe took a few tries to get a kickflip to fakie so I had to do it first try and rub it in his face. That’s about all I remember from me. Oh and kind of a frontside sal flip thing, but I had to go to tail. Eric’s trick is hard. Then my family showed and we were out. Well, they skated a little longer. Love seeing those dudes.

(setup 8.25 Null Lazer deck, venture 5.2 v-hollow trucks , venom 91a bushings, bones stf v1 53mm wheels, 2 washers on the inside of each axle, new balance numeric 212 maroon size 12, currex runpro medium arch insole )
(pain level 5/10)

On a very hot day Joe and I rolled to Lincoln with no definite plans. We went to Precision first and ended up getting an invite to Phil’s ramp a couple hours later. Sweet! We went to Peter Pan park to pass the time. There was a basketball short wearing local hero really going for it and slamming hard. It was almost inspiring. We started on the miniramp which was really good. I didn’t do much, Joe did his normal tricks. Then we skated the bank, bank to ledge. I went in on the nosestall to tail stall right away and it took awhile. Joe put together a few tricks. Front axle, smith, kickflip fakie. I finally got the nose/tail stall and it felt really cool. Then I went right to kick back axle. The heat was super intense, I thought I would pass out at times. My shirt felt like it grew 2 sizes from the sweat. Joe did the fakie flip and halfcab flip. The approach for those is gnarlier than it looks.

Then we went to Phil’s and were pleasantly surprised to see the ramp was in the shade. Phils’ friend Chad was visiting so it was the four of us. It was still hot, but more bearable in the shade for sure. Everyone except Phil started slowly. He started with a long run with a ton of tricks. This would be a trend as you can see by the 1 minute run. Phil killed it. So many different tricks. Super fun dude to skate with. The dump truck was pretty cool, most of his plant tricks were first try, he had some really long front 5-0s. Chad had some poppy frontside ollies, back 50s. Joe was doing all of his tricks and called the ramp the best ramp ever (it might be). I was kind of struggling and sore, but still having a blast. Took a few tries to get front 50. Got front disaster, kind of front smith, back 50 to fakie, kind of a texas plant and could not do a fakie pivot fakie. At the end the 3 of us tried kickflip rock fakies. I was too sore to really commit. Joe ended up getting it and that was that.

Then it was straight to more skating. This time York park with Eric. There was another dude there ripping which is rare to see in York. I was very sore. Joe pretended to be sore, but it didn’t seem to effect him at all. He was ripping through frontside grinds no problem. Notice I just say frontside. Ha ha. Eric was still hobbling some, but man those frontside finger flips are so sick. He has some cool speed lines, but you can tell the knee is still bothering him. Joe showed me up on a fakie flip, laughed at me and said he ‘sent it’. Ha ha. Well played. I could not front 50 the mellow bank to ledge. I couldn’t really ollie at all actually. I did have some crooks on the ledge, kickflip to fakie, boneless. Joe had a lot of front 50/smith/lip combos on the bank to ledge. Some solid fast front 50s on the ledge. Eric said he wanted to wallie the parking block and I told him it was easy. I went to show him and 8 tries later I kind of eeked one out. Ha. Those slams were not fun.

(setup 8.25 Null Lazer deck, venture 5.2 v-hollow trucks , venom 91a bushings, bones stf v1 53mm wheels, 2 washers on the inside of each axle, new balance numeric 212 maroon size 12, currex runpro medium arch insole )
(pain level 4/10)