Waking up early I went to Broomfield before work. With the exception of when I first got there and when I was leaving I had the park to myself. Warming up was alright. I was all over the place for awhile. I tried a few front feebles to fakie on the quartapotty, but never quite got one. I had a few front 50s on the black ledge, bad back 50 stalls on the blue ledge. I was doing alright with flippers, got a halfcab flip followed by backside flip then kickflip and missed a treflip. Then I settled in to trying front nosegrind 180. I would try a flip trick between each try. Got a few heelflips, fakie flips. Failed at treflips. But then out of nowhere got a nollie bigflip! It really cheered me up. It’s scary for me to commit to nosegrinds, it took a long time and I was getting late for work. Luckily I got one. It wasn’t pretty, but it had to do as I needed to leave. I had fun on my skateboard!

(setup 8.25 null archway deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.2 custom hollow AWAKE lows, bones medium bushings, 51mm spitfire 101a F4 classic shape, 3 washers inside each axle, new balance numeric 212 b/w/yellow size 12, new balance abzorb insole)
(pain level 3/10)

Another day wearing glasses and trying to avoid sunlight I went to campus before work for some flatground.  I went to the flagstone ledge area and mostly hid in the covered area.  I downloaded some random skate dice app to use as a warm up.  It did some basic tricks to start with like nollie back 180, switch shove, helipop, etc.  It was fun.  Then I tried halfcab flips for way too long before getting a couple really slow ones.  I ollied onto the ledge after and came remotely close to dropping into cali grind on the sidewalk.  Took a while for heelflips too.  I hucked a lot of nollie/switch flips and were close to both.  Committed, but didn’t get my feet on.  Couldn’t get a treflip which is always depressing.  I think the tighter bushings I’ve been rocking hurt treflips.  Man did I even land anything else?  I did a crooks or two, noseslides.  Ended trying kickflip then front 50.  I got into a couple front 50s, but never grinded and landed one.  Argh.  I wasn’t too depressed when I left skating, but upon writing this I am. I really hated how my kickflips felt. I wasn’t popping the tail.

So after work I tried low trucks again. And I loved it. I warmed up with some slappies in between some longboarders then skated some flat on the side of the school. I had some new wheels and bearings too. Spits 51mm. They felt great. My kickflips felt sooo much better. I was 3-3 on heelflips at one point too. I had a few initial tricks that felt good, then kinda went downhill. I mostly hucked all kinds of tricks without really sticking to or landing much. It was fun though.

(setup 1 8.25 null archway deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.2 custom hollow cast baseplate v-hollow hanger then venture 5.2 lows, bones hard bushings, bones stf v1 51mm 103a, new balance numeric 212 b/w/yellow size 12, nb abzord insoles)
(pain level 3/10)    

I work the later shift this week.  I was determined to hit dog park this week before work and hopefully progress.  Well, this morning would not be so good.  Other than a fakie nosegrind first try on the cinder block ledge it was pretty terrible. I had put two top bushing in my trucks to test the Ishod setup.  It definitely made the trucks lower and moved in the wheelbase a little.  But it sucked!  I seriously couldn’t skate.  Then square skate state started showing up.  I couldn’t ollie the wallie barrier.  I had a couple flip tricks feel nice, but other than that it was nothing but a struggle. I got heelflip, halfcab flip, fakie flip, but couldn’t get treflip.

(setup 8.25 null archway deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.2 custom hollow cast baseplate v-hollow hanger, 2 top bushings, bones stf v1 51mm 103a, new balance numeric 212 b/w/yellow size 12, nb abzord insoles)
(pain level 4/10)  

After avoiding sunlight all day because of the stye in my eye I went to Southern Hills when the clouds set in.  I was armed with 3 pairs of shoes since I hated the 440s so much.  I started with them, but didn’t last long.  Then I tried some old PJs.  Nope, finally some old 212s which I stuck with.  Jake showed and we played a game of SKATE.  It was a long one.  And of course the sun came out, but we were able to mostly hide from it. I took a while to adjust to the 212s.  I got a few tricks I liked, heelflip, first try f/s halfcab heel, a couple treflips that had heel drag ( I was happy to land them but they didn’t count for offense).  Jake would end up winning with fakie 3 shove.  He had gotten me with frontside flip, switch front shove, and a couple more.  Then we skated for a bit.  I did nothing good.  Everything was a total struggle.  Jake left.  I tried to skate more.  Did a line of noseslide to fakie, halfcab flip, crooks.  But couldn’t even fathom front 50 on a bench or ollie up the 2 stair.  Ugh. I left pretty darn bummed.

(setup 8.25 null archway deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.6 custom hollow cast baseplate v-hollow hanger, spitfire 51mm 101a radial slims, new balance numeric 212 b/w/yellow size 12, nb abzord insoles)
(pain level 4/10)