After a brutal callout most of the night my Sunday was pretty much totally ruined. Sometime after 6pm I finally went outside and skated the curbs for a bit. I had put my 8.25 setup back together. Seeing as how I really didn’t do much of anything the size really didn’t matter. Just a few slappies both ways, some slappy crooks, an ollie or 2 up the curb, maybe one kickflip.

(setup 8.25 null abstract 6 deck, Venture 5.6 trucks, venom 91a bushings , sml 53mm og wide wheels, 3 washers inside each axle, new balance numeric 212 grey size 12, footprints gamechanger insoles)
(pain level 3/10)

On a beautiful Saturday morning I went to meet Rob, Dave L and Kevin at Dog Park. I wasn’t hyped to go there since it had rained. I pulled and the Square State kids were there. Like 30 of them. And there were puddles so I just turned around and went to the new dork bank spot. Dave had challenged me to a varial flip over a hip. Since I don’t seem to go anywhere with a real hip this micro street hip would have to do. I did some dorking aorund to warm up, but was really struggling to flip the board. Rob showed up around the time I got the varial flip. He wasn’t feeling the spot and left for dog park. I stuck around for a backside flip that took longer than it should. Then went to a wet dog park and complained. It was just one of those days where no one seemed to be on the same page initially. But we skated and things got better. Dave L was trying slappy kickflips which would have been so crazy. He also casually manualled and back 5-0’d a bench. Kevin was putting together bunches of ledge tricks that I’ve never even tried. Nollie nosegrinds, switch nosegrind 180, back 180 nosegrinds, etc. Rob had some causal front noseslides, crooks, halfcab noseslides. I struggled to do a very slow front 50 and a fakie nosegrind that took way too long.

We bounced to a spot I had thought of for Stubborns. Just some slanted manual pad with a couple other random things around it. Dave F joined us. No one seemed very hyped at first, but it typical street skating fashion people started adapting and doing some stuff. Well, everyone but me that is, I was sucking beyond believe. Dave L was playing with a spindle and doing ollies while it moved and bonking it and stuff. It was fun to watch. Kevin started the filming with a manual to ollie the gap then a bluntslide on the curb. Rob pieced together two sick lines. No comply, wallie/nollie up, kickflip up a curb. Back 50 shove then shove wall plant. Seriously. So good. The back 50 shoves were textbook. Dave F was doing quick manuals, slappy crooks to fakie, cabs, halfcab flips, cabbing onto the curb. Dave L had some really good quick feet fornt slappies and manuals. I did manage a line (no filming because it wasn’t worth it) of front 50 the curb, manual, ollie up, wallie/nollie off the curb. I couldn’t kickflip up the curb, I couldn’t ollie the median, I took like 20 tries to 180 the tiny gap, it was a very bad session for me.

Then we went to a tiny steep bank on a busy bike path. I’ve skated it before, it’s really weird. Dave F killed it. Feeble 180 transfer. Back tail to fakie so smooth. I was trying to motivate by a line with a manual then boardslide then wallie/nollie. Never got the boardslide. Rob and Kevin were chilling. Dave L was filming Fuller rip it. Then Fuller had the worst slam trying a crooks transfer to fakie. It was so bad. But he got up and with Rob’s advice yanked it around for the hammer of the day. I tried the worlds smallest and dumbest kickflip on the min bank for awhile. Kevin got up and tried to wallie the end of the bank where it meets the wall. It was crazy. Dave L messed around near the end. Then we went to a nearby bump with a wall that was super fun for the ole wallie/nollie if your stance is correct. I did a bunch of them. Just having fun doing it into the mellow bank on a photogenic brick wall. Dave was doing them from the underside. Rob was boosting bean plants. Kevin slammed trying to make an ollie look extra good. Then went in on kickflip a bump to wallie/nollie but never got the wallie/nollie. You would think that was the end of the session, but it wasn’t. We hit the worlds smallest bank to curb and Kevin learned pivot shove fakie. Some other basic stalls were done, but that was basically it. Long day. I sucked like I haven’t in a long time. It was depressing. You know that means a setup change is coming.

(setup 8.5 null nolan machine deck, Venture 5.8 titanium trucks with cast baseplate, sml 53mm og wide wheels, 3 washers inside each axle, bones medium bushings, new balance numeric 212 grey size 12, footprints gamechanger insoles)
(pain level 4/10)