Went to Blue Skies right after work on another nice day. I got there first and had fun cruising some lines. My first warm up line was boardslide the flat bar, frontside ollie on the bank, then front tail on the bank with the death trap crack. I had wanted to work on pop again so I tried a line of side rock the other death crack bank, noseslide the tall middle ledge, ollie the flat bar, kickflip to fakie on the bank. Well, I never got past the flatbar ollie and it really upset me. Dave had shown and was doing lots of fakie shoves, nollie shoves on flat or the bank. I had changed the line to ollie to fakie, halfcab flip to start. But never got the halfcab flip. I had put the 5.8 hangers on to see if they were more stable. They were. But I couldn’t flip them. Dave started trying nollie heels. There were a couple super close ones. I tried nollie flips and was close too. There were a couple commits, but just not enough flip. Hopefully soon! Dave easily did some hippy jump 180s, casual first try front 50 the small scary ledge. He a run with boardslide to fakie the dragon rail, front board to fakie the flat bar, fakie shove, then fakie flip on the bank. Totally shredding. I tried some front 50s on the scary ledge that is always a mental battle to me. I committed to it first try going so slow and thought it was a good omen, nope. I pretty much gave up after that and it got dark. Dave had done fakie 3 shove on the bank too, fakie varial flip I think? When it got dark we put our phone lights on the bank as Dave was stubbornly trying varial flip to fakie. I did a couple nollie shoves and sweepers. Dave was getting frustrated then out of nowhere did a totally perfect varial flip to fakie. It was so sick!

(setup 8.3 null collage deck, jessup grip, venture 5.6 trucks, old 53mm bones stf PJ v1 wheels, venom 88a bushings (no boardside washer), new balance numeric 306 black/gum size 12, footprints gamechanger insoles)
(pain level 4/10)

Went to the dog park after work. There was only a couple of people there, puddles everywhere from the recent snow. So most of the normal lines/obstacles weren’t an option. Somehow this made it kind of fun. I basically just skated the lower step black ledge. Took a bit to get a few slow back 50s. I think I landed front 50 shove. Tried a few kick back 50s. Managed to kind of ollie the wallie barrier. Had some good feeling crooks on the metal bench, halfcab noseslide. Had b/s flip and halfcab flip, maybe heelflip. Didn’t commit to treflip. I left feeling kinda blah about skating as I hadn’t done anything new. I also didn’t like how loose my trucks were. I’m no Max Garson.

(setup 8.3 null collage deck, jessup grip, venture 5.6 trucks, old 53mm bones stf PJ v1 wheels, venom 88a bushings (no boardside washer), new balance numeric 306 black/gum size 12, footprints gamechanger insoles)
(pain level 2/10)