Up early on a Friday when I work later. Went to Louisville to keep the ‘skate something different’ vibe going. I wore cupsoles to try and lower the knee pain. It may have worked, but I sure didn’t skate better. I had the park all to myself with the exception of another dude that came and carved around for a few minutes. I started with some ride on grinds, carves, boardslides. My warm up run was front 50 the low part of the ledge, boardslide the flatbar, then b/s kickflip on the bank. Going the other way I tried manual the little box, heelflip on flat, crooks. I never got the manual without tilting, never got the heelflip, but did have a couple fun crooks. I mixed in kickflip to fakies thinking I would do it right away. Nope. Took forever. I skate banks/transition so little anymore that the bank honestly kind of weirded me out at first. I didn’t really go on to do anything else. Maybe a front 50 shove. I was like 0-5 on halfcab noseslides. Not a very good session or reason to go back to cupsoles.

(setup 8.5 null plant life deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.8 red cast baseplate titanium hanger, venom 88a big bushing 91a small bushing flat washer top, 54mm bones stf v5 with all washers outside the wheels, new balance numeric 533v2 grey size 13, xero thin insoles)
(pain level 6/10)

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