On a hot morning we went to dog park aka green block. My legs felt alight, but it was a slow start. They were removing some of the wiring so there were parts of the park to avoid at times. But that just made us skate it differently which is nice. Dave brought some little cinder blocks to raise a parking block which he went on to kill. Front 5-0s, hurricanes both ways, front boards, etc. He would almost kickflip the wallie barrier. I was kinda just going around doing nothing. Almost got a line of ollie onto the top step then nosegrind 180 the new weird pad. Eric had some nice front tails and actually missed some heelflips for once. Sean was doing lots of tricks smoothly. Sean and I eventually started trying our same lines from two days before. I never got the nollie tre. Someone had waxed the butter/metal ledge beyond belief, it was so scary to try 50s on. The kickflip primo hurt. Dave had some nice treflips while trying a line. Sean got the line he wanted and added a couple bonus tricks. Then we all played a game of SKATE. Well, two games of SKATE. My tricks were sucking, it was frustrating. I took several tries to get halfcab flip and missed heelflip and treflip. Sean won it on back bigspin I think. We played the second one with no repeats, Eric wasn’t in though. It was getting really hot and there was like a solid 10 minutes of no one landing anything. I don’t remember much about this game other than it was a real struggle. After the game I tried nollie and regular tres for awhile and failed. This time I just gave up. So frustrating.

(setup 8.3 null curby deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.2 cast baseplate v-hollow axle, stock bushings no boardside washer, 3 washers inside each axle, bones stf old 53mm pj v1 83b, new balance numeric 288s navy, no insoles)
(pain level 2/10)

Another hot day. I had decided to put together a new board after all and meet up with Sean at Broomfield park. After a brief warm up for us where Sean was doing flippers and I was doing tricks without popping we started skating the blue bank. Ollie up then no comply shove to fakie was the first trick. Then kickflip to fakie. Obviously Sean’s came way quicker than mine. I kept clipping a little on the ollie up, it was super annoying. Sean was popping up like it was nothing, for me it was such an effort. I would eventually get kickflip to fakie which felt good. Sean did ollie up then started rolling back down before doing a fakie flip. Also heelflip up then kickflip to fakie. I tried rock to kickflip fakie. There was another dude there ruling flip tricks and it hyped me up. He did so many it was ridiculous. Anyway, after quite a few awkward attempts I would get the rock to kickflip fakie and it felt really good. We skated the black ledge after that. Sean was going through his motions, basically every trick within a couple tries until he got to back lip 270 shove out which took a little bit. I did okay, the smaller trucks are weird for grinds. But Sean kept insisting I was skating decent. I got front 50, front 5-0s on accident, switch noseslide 270 shove, crooks, halfcab noseslide. Couldn’t quite get crooks shove and not very close to halfcab noseslide 270 shove. We played a game of SKATE that went pretty well for me even though I was at SKAT off some fakie shoves because I was trying to pop them and failed at double or nothing. But after that I had a few first try tricks like halfacb flip, heelflip and I think treflip which took a huge load off me. I would also go on to get fakie bigflip, nollie tre, f/s halfcab heel, but Sean won it on nollie back heel.

(setup 8.3 null curby deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.2 cast baseplate v-hollow axle, stock bushings no boardside washer, 3 washers inside each axle, bones stf old 53mm pj v1 83b, new balance numeric 288s navy, no insoles)
(pain level 2/10)