We used to call this Flatground Friday. We all showed up around the same time. We mentioned we should skate flatground, but we messed basically just started out on the obstacles. It was cool after the rearrangement it was like a new park. We had the whole park to ourselves for quite awhile too. Warming up is never easy, especially after a full week of work. I had finally remembered to swap out my bushings. I put some Bones mediums in. They felt really good. Dave did a quick up to boardslide the 1/2 step. Then he did it frontside. Rob got in on it and did the boardslide too. Rob had some lines with manual or nose manual, front board on the tall metal bench, kickflips. I started settling on a line with a trick on a concrete bench in the corner, trick on the tiny pad, attempt to ollie the barrier off the kicker. I never got a clean line, but had some fun crooks and halfcab noseslides, manuals and nose manuals. I committed to several ollies, but only rode sketchily away from one . Dave was trying with me. His line was a kickflip then a front board transfer the bench, but he ended up doing back 5-0 on the tiny pad then ollie. He got a couple clean ones. I really noticed how I wanted a bigger board for the ollie. I also tried a few boardslides on the weird bar on top of the tiny pad. I wanted a bigger board for that too. Argh. One other thing I had done which I hadn’t done before was halfcab boardslide the small flat bar. Dave and I messed around with halfcab noseslide 270. Then we played a game of SKATE. It started terribly for me as I got SK on pop shove then SKA on front shove. I almost focused my board and left. I did redeem myself with heelflip and halfcab flip, but then fizzled out again on treflip, b/s flip and lost on a cab. I watched Rob and Dave finish the battle. I think Rob won it on a back 360.

(setup 8.5 Null Lazer deck, venture trucks 5.8 cast baseplate titanium hanger , bones medium bushings, sml 53mm og wide wheels, 2 speed washers inside each axle, new balance numeric 212 gray size 12, spenco 3/4 orthotic under footprint 5mm insoles)
(pain level 4/10 pain in left ball of foot)

On a warm night I walked across the street after Rob, Saul and Dave were already skating (because I have the longest commute ha ha).  I still forgot to swap out the bushings and the stiff stock bushings were tough to slappy with.  I struggled with front and back slappies.  Saul wasn’t struggling with slappies though.  Well actually I guess I saw him hang up on the raw section once.  How unlike him.  Dave was already doing long slappy crooks, noseslides, noseslide 270.  Rob got robbed over and over on back 50 shove. Neither of us got first try front shoves from curb cut to parking lot, but we did get them..  Around the time the sprinkler came on I knew the sidewalk would get wet which motivated a first try kickflip from curb cut to parking lot.  So fun.  I think Rob got it first try too, he goes backside though, seems so hard.  I failed at kickflips up/into the curb cut, had a couple nollie back tails, the normal slappies, Saul did a front slappy around the corner below.  So sick.  This dude Mitch showed up determined to ollie the little gap after a 10 year hiatus from skating.  He had a nice ollie, but man he was scary to watch.  He would eventually get the ollie though.  Dave had cool grinds up the curb cuts to tail, pretty much most directions, lots of kickflips, sex changes.  Rob got a one foot back 50 or two, front 5-0s and ended trying kick back 50s.  I ended trying fakie flip/halfcab flip on the tiny bank.  I technically got one, but it wasn’t really on the ‘bank’.  It’s fun, I like messing around on that bank.  

(setup 8.5 Null Lazer deck, venture trucks 5.8 cast baseplate titanium hanger , stock purple bushings, sml 53mm og wide wheels, 2 speed washers inside each axle, new balance numeric pj 533v2 grey, currex run pro insoles)
(pain level 3/10)