On a nice day Ollie and I went to campus to skate whatever. We started in on the meet up curb. I had a fun few slappy crooks. Ollie had that nice manual. We hit the narrow downhill path for a bit. The rock isn’t there anymore. Ollie did his trick from The Stubborns (manual). I came close to nose manual. We did some grass rises then ended up at the mellow flagstone bank. Ollie came close to ollieing into it which mostly resembled a manual which would have been even sicker. He also got up to rock ‘n roll a couple times. I was able to ollie onto it without too much knee pain and did boneless, bean plant, ollie to fakie, almost nollie shove to fakie. We moved on and ended up on the main road through campus messing around with a little gap and 2 stair area. I had zero confidence in my ollies and took longer than Ollie to get the two foot flat gap. Ollie almost got it to manual. He had some front 180s down the two. I tried a line of ollie the flat gap, front 50 a stair, nollie back 180 off the two. Never got the nollie back 180, but it felt doable if I had some confidence. Then I watched Ollie battle kickflips. It took him ~90 tries to get it. It was cool to see him so motivated to do one and even cooler to see him land it so good. That was pretty much the end of the skating.

(setup 8.38 null curby deck, venture 5.8 cast baseplate with titanium hanger, 51mm bones stf v1 with all speed washers on the outside of the axle, bones medium bushings, jessup ultra grip, new balance numeric 913 westgates black/yellow size 12, footprint gamechanger low profile orthotic insoles)
(pain level 6/10 my knees kind of allowed me to skate now I just have to get some confidence back)

Out to punish myself I went to a basketball court with Dave after work. It was quite nice out. He had his girls with him and since the hockey rink had people in it we started on a smooth, but small basketball court. I was kind of more interested in playing basketball with his daughters than trying to skate. I guess I was afraid of how bad my knees would hurt. We kinda skated awhile. Some other dads had started playing basketball too so we had very limited space. We were both hurting and it showed, not much went down. I was wearing Westgates with orthotic insoles and it seemed to reduce the pain somewhat. After awhile the hockey rink cleared out and we went over there. I had hucked a few tricks. I think I only landed kickflip, halfcab flip and fakie flip as far as flippers. I was going to leave, but Dave challenged me to SK8. It ended up being a fun game. He got me with switch back 180 and something else. I got him with fakie flip, something else and won it on halfcab flip.

(setup 8.38 null curby deck, venture 5.8 cast baseplate with titanium hanger, 51mm bones stf v1 with all speed washers on the outside of the axle, bones medium bushings, jessup ultra grip, new balance numeric 913 westgates black/yellow size 12, footprint gamechanger low profile orthotic insoles)
(pain level 7/10 my knees suck)