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)

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