Went to the dog park before work on the last nice morning in awhile (according to the forecast). Warming up felt pretty good, I did lots of boardslides, then noseslides, then everything. I had put the green spits on my 8.5″ setup. It felt great out of the gate and felt great throughout. Since halfcab noseslide to fakie is a somewhat new trick for me I decided to go challenge Dave to it. So I filmed that for a couple of tries then said no more filming. I couldn’t get halfcab crook. I struggled with wallies over the little barrier for some reason. Got front 50 and front 50 180 on the concrete bench, crooks, switch front nose, a slow first try back 50 on the lower step. Flatground went decent. Kickflip, fakie flip, halfcab flip, b/s flip, heelflip, multiple treflips. Near the end I tried a line of slappy crook, treflip, ollie the small barrier. Even though the treflip was pretty bad and I tapped the barrier with my back wheels it felt good. Off to work.

So this is it. 8.5. One year goal. Starting today. 8.5″ deck, 8.5″ Ventures. One year.

(setup 8.5 null nolan deck, Venture 5.8 trucks (cast baseplate, titanium hanger), bones medium bushings , spitfire F4 52mm 99a green swirl wheels, 2 washers inside each axle, new balance numeric 306 Foy b/w size 12, footprints gamechanger insoles)
(pain level 2/10)

Got out kinda early since we’d be bringing Nolan to the airport we hit the top of Indian School for awhile. Nolan got a sick line then we all bombed it. Dean was with us. I was the last. Everyone else had warmed up at least a little. I dropped in without having set my feet no the board yet. It was a little weird, but it worked out. It’s a really fun run. I was a little sketched going under Tramway, but other then that it was pretty chill. There was a wind going up the ditch so it made things slower and the last stretch required a lot of pumping. Stoke we did that though.

Then we went to this spot. It was my idea since everyone was pretty beat and didn’t want to go to a gnarly spot. Although there is a tall ledge here too that Jack and Garrett messed with a little. I only landed a front axle, front tail and no comply to tail. Hayden had nosemanual 180. Jack gapped out to axle stall on the far one, did a front pivot on then narrow edge of the right curb, then slammed trying to shove pivot it. Sean had a nice back tail front 180. Dean had done a rad fast plant over the other tall ledge. ABQ Jack had done a cool manual pop over the curb. Garret was trying nollie shove nosepicks.

We left for a hubba to bank spot. Kind of hard to describe. Lets just say I was so tired I didn’t even attempt to skate. It was super windy, we were all tired. Jack went for the back 270 to front tail and got it super good pretty quickly. Agush was skated it too going for nose noseslide to manual. Garrett had a rad switch noseslide and rode it out switch. Sean and Hayden went to war. Hayden eventually got the front tail front shove, Sean the front tail 270. ABQ Jack did an insane front heel over the rail into the double bank. Then we left for home. Good times. Great trip.

(setup 8.25 null nolan deck, Venture 5.6 trucks, venom 88a bushings , spitfire F4 52mm 99a green swirl wheels, 2 washers inside each axle, new balance numeric 306 Foy b/w size 12, footprints gamechanger insoles)
(pain level 4/10)