After a weekend of camping and whiskey I attempted to skate a little in the late afternoon. I went to Southern Hills in hopes of some quiet. I got it. I have been wanting to skate flatground more so I did a lot of that. I would start on the smooth section with a flipper then go to the step or ledge. The first couple warm up lines were fun. But then f/s halfcab flip took a long time, although when I landed it it felt pretty incredible. I couldn’t get the front 50 after, only tried and it wasn’t even close. I spent way too long trying backside flip and got a terrible one. Had a lot of wheelbite. I hate big wheels. Got heelflip quick. Was trying switch flips on the handicap ramp in between tries. Got remotely close. I tried a couple treflips, but gave up tired.

Later on Saul and Dave were at the curbs so I went. I had put some old smaller wheels on. They felt good. Skateboarding was more fun again. Although regular slappies were much harder. Dave was being tech guy again starting most lines with kickflip or varial flip. Nice back 180 fakie 50, slappy crooks shove, slappy back 50 back 180 out, up the curb cut 50 to front tail, noseslides and a banger ender fakie shove fakie 50. I had some fun front slappys, almost a kickflip from curb cut to lot, a terrible treflip, tried crooks shove the hard way, had some fun little nollie shoves on the micro bank. Saul grinded more in one slappy then I did all night, had a bunch of front slappies too, may have gotten slappy crook. I was so tired at the end of this.

(setup 8.38 null event horizon deck, venture 5.6 trucks, venom 88a bushings, 53mm sml og wide wheels, 3 bearings inside each axle, mob grip, new balance numeric 533v2 pj grey size 13, currex run pro insoles)

Had the day off work. Was a little late meeting Dave L and Rob and when I arrived the park was totally soaked. Ugh. On top of that there was a new graffiti tag and trash everywhere. The hype level was very low as we knew the city would be bummed on that. We swept the puddles out for a good 30 minutes. Dave had to leave by then basically. Rob and I got somewhat warmed up around the time Raul showed up to check the graffiti as he had gotten emails from someone in the city. Doh. Fuzz showed up around then. He was able to figure out through his vast network who did the graffiti and had them scheduled to fix it. Power moves. Fuzz pretty quickly front 50’d the top step and then front 180’d out. Whoa. We did our things for a bit, I don’t remember much. Then Fuzz started a session on the black manny pad. Well, not mannys, but quick trick. He started it with ollie up then kickflip off. Then heelflip off. Then bigspin off. Rob and I started trying kickflips off. Fuzz did several more tricks. Front 180 up switch back 180 off. I think 180 up switch front shove off. Rob and I would eventually get kickflip off. Rob went on to get front shove off. Sick. Fun ending to a session that started pretty bleak.

(setup 8.38 null event horizon deck, venture 5.6 trucks, venom 88a bushings, 53mm sml og wide wheels, 3 bearings inside each axle, mob grip, new balance numeric 533v2 pj grey size 13, currex run pro insoles)