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Rob picked me up Saturday morning and we rolled to Evergreen to meet Kevin and Jake and eventually Cass. It rules being able to carpool again. Chatting with friends is great, especially Rob. We showed up at the same time as Kevin and walked into the end of an old guy session that Jake had joined. He was already popping on the ledges and the steep qp. The warm up was difficult initially, but with so few people at the park the freedom to do whatever made it nice. Kevin was quick with the pop over the hip. We tried 180s the hard way over the hip, me taking several tries. Rob was back 50ing the curb and manualling right away. Things get blurry after that. Jake and I tried kickflips over the hip. I was having fun lining it out with slow front 50s on the little fence ledge and got a kickflip that felt pretty good. Jake got a sketchy one that Rob called him out to clean up and then landed it next try. Rob had a poppy halfcab over the hip and treated us to a lofty beanplant over it. Kevin was getting close to a line with nollie tre over the hip and asked me to film it for “3 tries”. He had the same results as me a few days ago. I filmed way too much, but he was so close every time it was hard to think he wouldn’t land it. I mixed in some front heel attempts, some of which were remotely close, most of which were not close at all. I tried a few tricks on the upper ledge and was happy how easy popping up the curb was, but mostly didn’t land any grinds. Same problem I’ve been having recently, getting onto the ledge fine and then falling off. Jake did front blunt the small qp then front pivot or front rock the steep qp. Rob was going in on a battle of manual to boardslide up the curb to ledge. He was so close so many times. I tried to get a rock ‘n roll on the steep qp, I’ve never done anything on it before. The line was switch noseslide 270 shove the fence ledge, front slash the little qp, rock. I would eventually get it and it felt rad. Rob was still battling the manual to boardslide so I kept going to and tried to finish on backside flip the hip. Rob got got his pretty quickly at that point and man it was good. Then I battled b/s flip for wayyyyy too long. Landed one cruddy one with hands down and kept struggling until everyone was leaving when I finally put down a slightly less terrible one. Then we hung in the shade at Casa Tequilas and had a fun time hanging out and decent food. Oh yeah, I forgot all about Cass. Ha. So he had arrived and was in the warm up process when he broke his truck. Doh. Somehow Kevin had a pair of Ventures in his bag so Cass swapped out and tried to get going again on different trucks (he skates Thunders). But a couple minutes later he blew out a bearing so he packed it in. Doh.

(setup 8.38 null jack night skate, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.8 cast plate titanium hanger, ace low barrel bushing and venom 91a small bushing, 52mm spitfire 99a f4 classic shape, new balance numeric b/w/blue 212 size 12 with nike sb zoom air insoles)
(pain level 4/10 quite a bit of soreness)

Worked super early so was able to leave work and be to Scott Carpenter by 3:30 to meet Dave for his “only 30 minutes” to skate. The park wasn’t too crowded, but the blond kid standing on the hip counts as 5 because he goes nonstop. Dave was mostly on the steep qp at the start. I saw a first try boardslide to fakie down it, then back 50 down it, then feeble, front smith up it, geez dude. Nollie back 180s the hip, nose manny the bump to pad, front 50 and front 50 back 180 the bank to ledge. Total shredding. I skated alright, it’s weird trying to figure out a new warm up routine at a new park. I took way too long to get a bs flip over the hip, some noseslides across the bank to ledge, had a fun long back 50 on the new qp, got some basic backside stalls on the parking block qp, posed a few nollie tres across the hip that felt doable, crooks the bench and had a really fun line to end it of crooks across the bank to ledge followed by 5-0 the bench. Dave had left, but well past his “30 minutes to skate” window. The new stuff is really fun. I was happy with how easily I was popping onto the bench, but unhappy with how little I was landing on it. It’s been weird lately my pop is better but I can’t seem to lock into grinds well. Maybe it’s because my trucks are so worn down, I don’t know.

(setup 8.38 null jack night skate, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.8 cast plate titanium hanger, ace low barrel bushing and venom 91a small bushing, 52mm spitfire 99a f4 classic shape, new balance numeric b/w/blue 212 size 12 with nike sb zoom air insoles)
(pain level 3/10)