On a nice evening Jake swooped me up directly after dinner and we went to the new and ‘improved’ dog park.  I had a smaller board and it immediately felt weird.  But mostly I was weirded out by the different skate flow.  People were going faster from the bank to bank and the big qp.  It was hard to get used to.  Jake was lining out the china bank and vert wall.  Two words never used to describe the dog park before.  I was hating life.  Actually threw my board in frustration a couple times.  Gave up on halfcab noseslide on the metal ledge as Matt showed up. I took a bit to get a kickflip to fakie on the bigger bank and that was fun.  I avoided the mass fly out session off the kickers and skated my fav cement ledge for a bit.  Matt came by and did a first try front tail so I tried one too.  Didn’t get it but got into a couple lame stalled ones and it still cheered me up some.  I didn’t really notice what others were doing as I was in one of those funks that had me mostly bummed out.  Matt said he noseblunted the butter ledge.  Jake may have gotten a 5-0 to fakie on the China bank.  I had some fun wallies on the little barrier, crooks on the concrete ledge.  Couldn’t get kickflip to fakie over the bank gap.  Then Jake and I played a game of SKATE.  He got a treflip first try , I missed mine, but got it second try on the double or nothing.  Then I dug myself into a hole by missing two varial flips.  I got him with halfcab flip, heelflip, backside flip and almost fakie heel.  At one point I hurt my knee pretty good.  A friendly reminder how the 379s have no arch support and I should wear orthotic insoles with them.   Jake got a couple bigspin variations on me and it was over.  I finished the session with a fun couple halfcab noseslides to fakie.

(setup 8.25 null lazer deck, venture 5.6 v-lights, spitfire f4 101a 51mm classic wheels, 3 washers inside each axle, bones medium bushings, new balance numeric 379 black size 12 shoes, nike sb zoom air insole)
(pain level 2/10 at the start then 7/10 by the end ugh)