Here we are again, in Jack’s awesome video. What an awesome song choice.

On a cold day Joe and Matt picked me up and we headed to a newish DIY spot in Omaha. I wore new shoes in hopes that cupsoles would help my pain. They felt weird and made warming up in the cold oh so much harder. Matt had a new complete so he was having troubles too. But we would all get it going. I had some halfcab noseslides, crooks on the tall granite ledge, ollied up onto it once, noseslide to fakie, had a funny explosion slam on a front 50 attempt. I was going for a no comply flip over a parking block and landed with a weird primo that sent my back foot into immediate pain. Ugh. It wasn’t an ankle “roll”, but it was a weird sprain/hyperextension or something. I kind of tried to keep skating, but basically didn’t. Joe was ripping lining out front 5-0s, smiths. He did a back 50 front 180 out that was really sick. Matt manualled the bump to ledge, nose manual too, back 5-0s, back nosegrinds, blunt the micro flat bar, and lots of funny slams due to the huge filmer wheels. Since I couldn’t ollie we left and hit the Council Bluffs park after a stop at Silo. It was so cold at this point. I pumped around in pain while those dudes skated pretty good. Joe had a great front 50 shove on the top rope. Matt almost got it switch, had some good 50 on the weird qp. Then we went to the rail yard and had a couple drinks to warm up. These dudes rule.

(Setup 8..25 null abstract 6 deck, venture 5.6 v-lights, 1/16” riser, bones medium bushings, 52mm spitfire tablet f4 99a, jessup ultragrip, new balance numeric 288S black curtain size 12 (never again), stock insoles)
(Pain level 5/10 before the roll, 10/10 after)

On a warm day Joe picked me up and we decided to go explore rather than go to the skatepark. We started at Creighton which we haven’t really skated before. First thing we found was the super crusty fountain. It had a lot of potential, but it was super hard. We both did the side rocks, both posed bonelesses over the hip. But we got the boot before we could really get comfy with it. As we were walking off we found an amazing wallride spot. Doh. Then we had a fun mellow hill bomb to a nice 3 stair that we 180’d. My back 180 took too many tries. Then we did a weird little line of ollie a manhole and kickflip into a mini bank with some fun ollies after. I got it first try. We got the boot again and Joe got it on the way out. We hit this huge bank next that Joe does the ollie on. It was way steeper than it looks. I didn’t even try. Next we ended up at Central HS where we spotted a prefect virgin granite ledge! We decided to hit the stairs first. Joe did his real quick. I did mine not so quick and I was definitely still feeling the arthritis pain. It was still fun though. Then we went over to the perfect granite ledge and got fresh tracks. Joe got front 50 pretty quick and I got crooks. We kept playing around, that ledge was not short and the runway was a little downhill and awkward. We each did a few things. Joe looked good getting on them front 50s easily. He also got 180 out. Near the end I forced myself to try front 50. I got closer and closer until I finally landed a super slow one. I was super excited about it and hugged Joe after. Considering how bad my arthritis was it felt pretty epic to get up on one of the taller ledges I’ve done in awhile. And it was granite! We moved on, basically just skating/ walking and eventually ended up back at the car. What a fun day.

(Setup 8..25 null abstract 6 deck, venture 5.6 v-lights, 1/16” riser, bones medium bushings, 52mm spitfire tablet f4 99a, jessup ultragrip, new balance numeric 306 foy black/gum size 12, nike sb zoom air insoles)
(Pain level 6/10 arthritis sucks)