On a very nice day I rolled off around noon to hit Wilville.  It was a fun ride there, a little weird the first time with risers and all that going fast.  I started at the 3 stair then flagstone ledge area.  It was weird how no one was there, which is to be expected, but it was still weird.  I got a noseslide or two on a ledge then started trying the ol’ line game.  Something like pop shove a crack, ollie the 3, noseslide a ledge.  Then I basically went in on a line for awhile.  Pop shove the little up crack, front 180 the 3, fakie flip on flat, halfcab noseslide the ledge.  But I never committed to the fakie flip.  The slight hill was just too much and I couldn’t commit.  I think I just need to get some confidence back.  So I just tried halfcab noseslides for a bit.  Took awhile, but I kinda got one.  I also had a couple good feeling heelflips going back.  Then I rolled for awhile and ended up at the main ledge spot.  I had some fun front 50 stalls on the knobbed section then noseslide, noseslide fakie, crooks and boardslide on the main section.  Hucked noseslide 270 shove for a bit, but needed to get going.  I looked at a little ollie over a curb to drop I want to do, but chickened out and headed home.

Near the end of the work day I met Saul and the Daves across the street.  Saul got his slappy challenge out of the way.  Before I even got there actually.  He did slappy feeble and slappy crook pretty quickly.  He also ollied a rock off the curb but.  It was sick!  Dave L had some casual nollie front 180s over the rock ( I think?), manual then nose manual into the micro bank, front tails, kickflips.  I didn’t skate great, had a kickflip over the rock, some decent slappy front crooks, one bad fs hc flip, couldn’t get kick back tail, some okay regular slappies, couldn’t get slappy shove or fakie nosegrind.  Dave F got it like 2nd try though.  He did a switch slappy crook shove first try, then was trying it in a line forever and got really frustrated.  Then he did it the one time Dave L wasn’t filming.  Ha. That’s always how it goes.  Felt good to skate so much.

(setup 8.5 null collage, venture 5.8 cast baseplate with titanium hanger, 1/8″ riser, 54mm spitfire f4 99a green lance mountain 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 11.5, no insoles at all)
(pain level 3/10)