Man this video is really great. This is my fav Alexis part and maybe my fav Louie part. They win this week and that says a lot considering how many great videos came out this week.

For some reason I went skating again. I was excited to check out dog park again as it’s been awhile and I hadn’t seen the lights. There were a couple young skaters I’ve seen around showing off their youth and energy at all times. They wouldn’t stop, except to sit and smoke up. With the lights the park feels much smaller as the edges aren’t really skateable. I had put some thicker insoles in to hopefully ease some pain, but it just made me feel even more terrible on my skateboard. I would go on to have quite a depressing night. It stated when I couldn’t get back 50 over and over. There is a new ledge there that’s a little longer and wider with a big piece of angle iron that seems to grind and slide well. I took too long to get a halfcab noseslide on it, got crooks after the youth did a couple perfect ones, switch front nose. The shadows messed with me on some other stuff like the cinder block ledges. I couldn’t get much for flatground. Got a bad switch noseslide shove. Was starting to get up on front 50s on the new ledge when the lights shut out early. Doh. I need to take a break from skateboarding. Mentally and physically I need a recharge. We’ll see how long I can go.

(setup 8.25 303 clfx spirt deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.8 titanium, venom 88a bushings, 52mm bones stf v1 103a, 3 washers on outside of wheels, new balance numeric 212 blue/gum size 11.5 stock insoles)
(pain level 6/10 knees)

After making some progress in figuring out where the auger is stuck in my drain I met Dave on Campus. The video above basically documents what we skated. I felt terrible initially. Just so out of it, sore and afraid of knee pain. Dave was was riding down the stairs already and doing kickflips when I got there. It stinks having to park off of campus now. We looked at the rails off the ledge, did some stalls on the steps, some kickflips, etc, then moved on to look at some other things. We hit the brick curb area for awhile. It was fun trying to line things out. It’s crazy how hard it was for me to ollie that pile of snow. I don’t think I cleanly got the ollie, but I did get a fun line. I forget exactly how it started, I think it was a tail stall on the manhole that Dave kickflips, kickflip on flat, ollie the snow, front 50 180, fakie flip, halfcab flip. I was going slow for the last couple, but it still felt pretty great considering how sore I felt. Dave had a bunch of kickflips over the manhole, easily 180’d the snow and even switch ollied it! I treated the top as a mini bank and did a frontside kickflip which took too long and couldn’t quite get front 50 shove after. But I would get a fun one while Dave was perfecting a ride off grind. Next up Dave avoided a scooter doing the wallie ollie challenge. Then he did something on the black bar and we ended up at the bank to curb. That spot is way harder than it looks. I was happy to get up the curb somewhat consistently and get a crooks first try. Then I started trying 180 up tail stall shove and would get one in less than 20 tries (which is incredibly quick for me ha ha). Dave did some ride on nosegrinds to fakie then started trying nose picks to fakie. I added in a back axle stall that also made me a little happy before filming Dave try the nosepick. But I messed up and didn’t hit record on the one he landed. Luckily he kept trying and would get an even better trick that will someday grace the big screen. After that we was done. I could have skated more, but with my soreness and the sun going down I called it when Dave had to go.

(setup 8.25 303 clfx spirt deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.8 titanium, venom 88a bushings, 52mm bones stf v1 103a, 3 washers on outside of wheels, new balance numeric 212 blue/gum size 11.5 stock insoles)
(pain level 6/10)