The day after taking my first day off of skating in 2021 I went to campus right after work. It was kind of warm and I knew I could find some dry patches and something to skate. I ended up at the new little downhill curb. I had a fun nollie front tail to get things started, but then I couldn’t kickflip. I would eventually get some, but they felt so bad. I went for a warm up line noticing there was still a little daylight left! The line I ended up getting was ollie up the curb, ollie down the 3, bad kickflip, better kickflip, front 50 front 180 out, bailed the halfcab flip. Then I ended up at the little bump to hill I recently hit with Rob and Jake. I wasn’t feeling too good. Pop shove was 2nd try, kickflip took like 5 tries. Fakie bigspin 2nd try. Halfcab flip took a long time, but I partially blame the darkness. I ended on front shove. I went to the double curb area. Tried to do manual, ollie the first one, ollie from the kicker off the next one. I had a tough time getting over that first curb. There’s an optical illusion making it look big. Anyway, when I finally landed it some pain shot through my right knee. Ugh. I called it a night and walked to my car. Arthritis sucks.

(setup null 8.5 plant life deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.8 trucks (red cast baseplate titanium hanger), venom bushings (88a big, 91a small one flat washer), spitfire f4 classic shape 99a 50mm wheels, new balance numeric 212 mustard size 11.5, footprint mid elite insoles)
(pain level 6/10)