After a crumby night of sleep I went to dog park before work.  I had a new Team Sweat Stain shirt on and was determined to make a fun montage to show it off.  But I quickly gave up as when a warm up wallride on the jersey barrier took a few tries.  I struggled the rest of the session, but it wasn’t completely terrible.  I had a fun run of front 50 down the MJ ledge, slappy crook a parking block, back 50 the little pad, terrible rocket flip on flat, nollie back tail the weird black pad, almost front 50 shove out the new black ledge.  Got first try snaps over Wallys World.  But man I could not kickflip to save my life and it bummed me out.  I finished the session just hucking kick back tails on the weird pad and not getting very close.

(setup 8.38 null plant life deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.6 custom hollow baseplate v-hollow axles, stock bushings, 52mm bones stf 103a v1, new balance numeric 440 white size 11.5, no insoles)
(pain level 3/10)

On a warm morning I went to dog park feeling mentally and physically good for once.  I was in the early warm up stages when Max Garson walked up to say hi.  I was hyped.  We chatted for a bit then he told me to boardslide the flat bar on the new manny pad.  He didn’t think I’d get up there, but I got it 2nd try.  Then he tried to teach me switch heels.  There were a couple that were incredibly close.  I was hyped.  He took off.  I played around for a bit then focused on kick front boards / treflips for awhile.  I don’t know why I randomly thought of kick front boards on the way there, but I’m glad I did.  I got one terrible treflip as a setup trick.  The kick front board took probably 50 tries.  I was hyped.  Then I got bummed on my front 50s on the cinder block ledge again, got a fakie nosegrind, maybe some other stuff.

After work I went to the school kind of sore wanting to skate flatground.  PJ had brought the heat and inspiration (fakie inward heel switch crook) and I wanted to get some flippers.  I would get some.  Quite a few actually.  Kickflip, fakie flip, heelflip, halfcab flip, f/s halfcab flip, halfcab heel, f/s halfcab heel, varial flip, b/s flip, fakie bigflip.  A questionable first try treflip that I didn’t want to clean up.  Came close to nollie tre, switch b/s flip and back heel.  It was a good time.  Then I went inside and watched the Nuggets make history against the Clippers.  What a great day.

(setup 8.38 null plant life deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.6 custom hollow baseplate v-hollow axles, stock bushings, 52mm bones stf 103a v1, new balance numeric 440 white size 11.5, no insoles)
(pain level 3/10)