On a nice day I woke up from a nap and decided on campus. I was really wanting to hit the hallway ledge and do halfcab flip then noseslide. I kind of lapped around campus before ending up at the little two stair to warm up. There’s a little bank up to the steps, so it feels like a bank to curb. A very mellow bank to curb yes, but I still like it. I haven’t really skated it that way before. I really want to rub brick/wax it up. I was hurting pretty bad still, started with nosestall 270s, nollie tails, eventually some pivots and front tails. Then trick kickflip pivot and front tail 270 shove for a bit. I went across the street to the hallway spot where I absolutely made a fool of myself. I was trying to fakie flip with the tiniest bit of speed and slammed in front of a window with a student sitting there. So I gave up on the 3 trick line and just tried the halfcab flip into the bank. It didn’t come easy this time, but I would get the line twice. I wanted to try treflip into the “bank” too, but I wasn’t feeling it. I did a really slow crooks then lurked some other spots. Most of which either had snow or sand and I ended up just going home feeling pretty defeated. I had tried some thinner insoles which did reduce some knee pain, but then seemed to make everything else worse. Argh.

(setup 8.5 null jack pro deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.8 cast baseplate titanium hanger no big washer, 53mm spitfire f4 99a conical full red/blue swirl, new balance numeric 22 maroon size 12, footprint 3.5mm insoles)
(pain level 6/10)

On a somewhat cool day I met Dave F, Dave L and Rob at Rocky Mountain Elem. I had been called for work early that morning and didn’t get much of any sleep. I was the last one there. Since my 288S had finally bit the dust I was in some 22s I had gotten recently. I put some Lakai insoles and they felt good. Right near the start Rob did a no comply 5-0 on the curb to get things firing. L was doing his casual ripping with some shoves, back 50s, manuals. F was doing boardslides to fakie, front noseslides, kickflips, sex changes. Somehow I started off landing almost every flip trick I tried. Kickflip, fakie flip, halfcab flip, heelflip, f/s halfcab flip, b/s flip. But things would come crashing to a halt pretty quickly trying front 50s as the exhaustion kicked in and my right knee really started hurting. Argh. Fuller went in on his incredible b/s pivot to switch crook down the bank median. He did one so good. Rob did back shove 50 on the curb, a bunch of no comply 5-0s, back 180s up the curb to cab kickturn on the bank, bigspin front nose. I would get a couple of the worlds slowest front 50s, one was followed by a kickflip off the curb, both were eventually followed by treflip fails. I did a line I was happy about, back 50 the curb, kickflip up the curb, decent crook the ledge (then flail a treflip of course). I tried front smith grinds, but I think all I landed was a f/s pivot. Still felt cool. F filmed L trying a line with a rock ride, some shoves, then back tail. He did it really good. This was when I went to leave which lead to chatting for awhile. I took a good two hour nap when I got home. And man my right knee was hurting.

(setup 8.5 null jack pro deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.8 cast baseplate titanium hanger no big washer, 53mm spitfire f4 99a conical full red/blue swirl, new balance numeric 22 maroon size 12, lakai carrol insoles)
(pain level 5/10)