Had the day off work. With the weird pandemic I didn’t feel like making any plans. Especially with how I felt when I woke up. But I still did some stretches and exercises and went outside early armed with an 11×11 list. But I took awhile to get kickflip, fakie flip and varial flip warmups. I got the first trick on the list, halfcab flip pretty quickly. But then I couldn’t get a f/s halfcab flip and my knee started hurting making heelflip not even a realistic possibility. So I went inside frustrated and complained about being old. Liz and I played some tennis in the afternoon then I met the Dave’s and Saul across the street after that. I felt much better than the morning and went on to have a really fun session. My body was behaving and it was so incredible to not be limited by pain like I have been so much lately. Saul got slappy crooks right away. Also of course his super long backside slappies and front slappies. He got close to slappy back smith too, ollied up the curb a few times, front slappy’d non-waxed sections. Dave L continued with the ultra casual manuals, back 5-0s, didn’t do many slappies (probably because when he does they look effortless and perfect), nollie front 180s, tries some front 3s and nollie cabs, some switch slappies. I had my normal slappies and got a couple slappy front feebles. Had front shove and kickflip from the curb cut to the parking lot, nollie back 180 too. Got a first try f/s halfcab flip on flat, but couldn’t quit get it from the curb cut to parking lot. Couldn’t quite get treflip off the kicker or kick back tail on the curb. Had some randomly good (for me) nollie back tails. Man I had fun. Dave F do what he do. Slappy crooks, switch slappy crooks, front 5-0 180, back 180s off the curbs, ride on grinds to tail, halfcab back 50 and then as it was raining pulled off halfcab back 50 back 180. So sick!

(setup 8.5 null collage, venture 5.8 cast baseplate with titanium hanger, 1/8″ riser, 54mm spitfire f4 99a green lance mount classics with all speed washers on the inside of the each axle, bones medium bushings, jessup ultra grip, new balance numeric 288S b/w size 12, no insoles at all, incrediwear knee sleeve)
(pain level 3/10 that’s it!!!!!)

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