Woke up around 5:30am for some dumb reason and felt pretty good so I went to the dog park.  I was there shortly after 6:30 and thought I would have the place to myself.  Nope, there were some little kids scooting or biking quite a bit of the time.  Argh.  I wonder why it’s fun to go in circles around stuff and not try tricks versus ride on the nearby fun dirt bike trails.  Back to skating, the warm up was a struggle.  I had started thinking I’d have one of those days where I couldn’t ollie at all.  It’s been awhile since I’ve had one of those.  It ended up being a fun session though.  I got some front 50s on the cinder block ledge quickly, a shove out.  Most of the ledges were sticky, it was annoying.  Even for crooks.  Dave had challenged me to halfcab noseslide shove so I tried that for awhile on a cinder block ledge.  It is hard.  I got somewhat close several times, but never landed it.  I had tried to ollie the cinder block ledge too and 360 flips in between tries.  Failed on all of those.  I cruised around for a bit, feeling some stuff out.  Then tried a kind of ridiculous line.  Ollie the wallie thing, kickflip a small plastic parking block, back 50 the tiny pad, 3t60 flip, noeslide back 270 out the tall black ledge.  I only got the first 3 tricks, but even that felt cool.  Oh wait, I gave up on the ollie and did wallies instead.  So maybe not so cool.  I did do one noseslide and did a double pivot thing 270 out.  It wasn’t anything like how Bobby does them, but it felt cool.  I ended with a front nosegrind 180 on the narrow low metal ledge which I haven’t done on that before.  All things considered I skated alright.

Then right after work I went into the shaded alley at the school and skated flat for about an hour.  I was a little sore when I started, but felt good quickly.  I would get quite a few of the basics, but didn’t get anything hard.  I hucked a ton of tricks and never really focused on anything other than switch flips which I kept at the whole time.  I was so close to a few switch flips.  I had so many where I landed with just the back foot.  I committed with both feet several times too, but it would only flip halfway.  Halfcab flip took several tries for some reason.  Other tricks I got were fakie flip, fs halfcab kickflip and heel, heelflip, backside flip.  Couldn’t get nollie or reg treflip.  Hucked some tricks I have no business trying like back 3 kickflip, fakie ghetto bird, switch back heel.  I got tired tired near the end and had no energy so I went home.

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