Feeling even better on a nice Sunday I headed out to hit the metal curb spot in Louisville. But when I drove by there was a handful of scooter kids so I went right on by. I ended up at this school Neil and I skated a few times. It wasn’t as great looking as a I remember, but still cool. And a good place for me to loosen up the legs and start trying tricks again. Which is what I did for quite awhile before Jack and Carleigh showed. Stall trick on the bottom step, flatground trick, trick on the weird narrow bank. First line was front tail stall, kicklfip, side rock. Next was back pivot, heelflip, ollie to fakie. The term “ollie to fakie” might not actually represent the tiny no pop hop to fakie I did. Next was front axle on the 2nd step, backside flip, fakie tail stall. I was hyped to get on the 2nd step. Jack and Carleigh showed as I got another line or was doing it better. Front tail to fakie, halfcab flip, a weird side front tail flop off. Jack went right to the stairs. After a kickflip he did the nollie tre pretty quick. Carleigh did some bean plants down the 3. I felt the peer pressure and skated the stairs too. Well, I lined out something to the stairs. Pop shove, wallie nollie, ollie. Carleigh did a bunch of no complies down the stairs. Jack had broken his board on a nollie flip then setup a new one and got one pretty quick down the 3. Then we all skated the narrow bank for a bit. I tried front tail to front rock for a bit then gave up sore. I had landed on a couple varial heels, but with the hands down. Carleigh got the axle stall. It’s way harder than it looks. Jack had tried several tricks. Kinda close to back noseblunt, treflip to fakie. He got pivot fakie, a pivot ollie back in thing.

We left for another spot. I forgot to take a photo. But it was basically a 6-7 stair with a wood ramp extending out of it. Carleigh didn’t really skate it. I did some weird frontside ollie where my nose kinda noseslid the rail. Then I filmed Jack 5-0 transfer it which is as gnarly as it sounds. Then I attempted to shake off the sore legs and did a little boneless tail bonk transfer. It felt cool. Jack filmed it great too. Fun day. Glad we got out in the streets.

(setup 8.25 null abstract #6 deck, Mini Logo 8.38 trucks, spitfire f4 101a 51mm classic wheels, 2 washers inside each axle, stock mini logo bushings, new balance numeric 913 Westgates b/w, stock insoles)
(pain level 5/10)

On a warm and sunny Saturday I went over to the curb feeling slightly better with the plan of meeting almost every older skater I know. It was awesome. I probably wont even remember everyone that skated, but it was Jake, Saul, Rob, Dave, Simon, Dave L, Sean, Kevin, Fuzz and me. So sick! At first I didn’t think I’d be able to skate much, but it did loosen up. Over a few hours I didn’t really do anything much. I had a couple kickflips which made me happy and several slappies. Jake was the first to leave so he gets first dibs in the journal. Slappy bluntslides, slappy crooks, 360 flip. Saul with the long slappies, consistent front slappies, front slappy around the hook. Sean was next to go. He had some ripping kickflips into and out of the banks. Some long front tails, relearned halfcab 50s. In fact he did it in a line. Halfcab 50, kickflip up the curb to quick wallie a rock gap. Rob was a little stiff from tons of hiking. Still saw him rip the back 50 no comply shove out, slappy crooks, kickflips, beanplants, something new I’m forgetting right now. Man it ruled seeing Simon skate again. He rips. Such a natural. Real long slappies, switch slappy, slappy crooks, switch slappy crook, fast kickflips and 180s, bluntslide to 50. Kevin was sore from a couple weeks off the board too. He had still done some solid flippers, back 50s, halfcab 50 back 180, back tail into the bank. He had a rad line with a silly pole grab to grind then manual to wallie the rock gap. He was also the first to notice my silly trucks which I had hoped no one would notice. I was hyped when Fuzz somewhat gave me props on having the courage to try them. FYI two days in still liking them. Speaking of Fuzz, he also rips. Took him a bit to get that line he’s tried a bunch, but man it was good when he did it. Ollie into the curb cut, front 180 out, fakie nosegrind 180 out. Also some killer slappy noseslides, switch ones, nollie tails, powerful style. Fuller was the last one to arrive to the session he organized. Ha. Darn football traffic. He killed it though. Slappy switch crook shove, halfcab back 50 back 180 out, slappy crooks shove, slappies, sex changes, switch ollies and switch back 180s into the curb cut, ride on back 50 to back tail. Dave L has the best slappy of anyone I’ve seen. He does them to 5-0 and almost got a shove out too. Did a nice front tail 270 shove, casual manuals. Super fun session even though I didn’t really skate.

(setup 8.25 null abstract #6 deck, Mini Logo 8.38 trucks, spitfire f4 101a 51mm classic wheels, 2 washers inside each axle, stock mini logo bushings, new balance numeric 913 Westgates b/w, stock insoles)
(pain level 7/10)