Still on call for work so I like to skate before work since I can actually leave town safely. I felt sore, especially in the achilles but I still went to Broomfield. I kind of got going pretty good for awhile though. Had some fun runs around to warm up. One I liked was noseslide to fakie the black ledge, switch noseslide 270 the blue ledge, fakie flip on flat. Also a new dork combo. Ollie deck check to front disaster to manual down the brown ledge. Flip tricks felt impossible. I had some alright front 50s. My achilles started to really act up. I tried to do a treflip, but it wasn’t happening so I left.

(setup null 8.25 nullosaur, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.6 red cast baseplate v-hollow hangers, bones hard bushings, 51mm bones stf 103a v2, es swift 1.5 b/w size 11.5 footprint 3mm flat insoles)
(pain level 6/10 achilles)

After getting stuck working all of Friday night and Saturday I went to campus around noon after lounging/sleeping in. I started at the meetup slappy curb where slappy crooks didn’t feel as good as a couple days ago. But when I went down to the flagstone ledge my flip tricks felt better. I would get my first several tricks in a row. Noseslide, kickflip, fakie flip, switch noseslide, boardslides, etc. It got tough quick though when I got to halfcab flips. I couldn’t believe it was happening again. That used to be my trick. I did get one in a few tries and would eventually get a few in a row at one point. Heelflips killed me though as did front 50s. My first goal of the day was front 50 it. I would finally get one of each. I was hucking lots of switch flips and got so close. I tried for another front 50 and would eventually get one that didn’t grind, but I didn’t care I was over it. That ledge is so tall for me. I had also gotten crooks, crooks fakie, front nose fakie, close to f/s halfcab heel.

Then I went to the nearby 3 stair/weird metal ledge. I had the goal of ollieing the 3 stair then doing front 50. At first I took an embarrassing amount of time to back 50 front 180 out the little ledge. The gap in is about one foot. Then I tried to ollie the 3 and do something on the ledge. It was way harder than I thought. First there is no setup on the 3 stair and a big crack right in the middle so you have to choose a side. I would get the ollie then a nollie tail. The ollie then front 50 was so much harder thought. I had to basically land in a speed check to be able to do it. But I did and it felt cool.

Then I went to the little manny pad across from the stadium. I had randomly thought of halfcab nose manual which I’ve never done before. I never got it, but I did get into a couple and would like to try again. I also did manual, nose manual and close to switch 180 manual. Couldn’t get a treflip.

Then I went to the covered downhill ledge area. I was happy to hide out and be by myself. While I was stretching though and entire crew showed up and started working out doing lunges and yoga and stuff. I was confused what they were doing until they started doing parkour. Turns out they were filming and everything. It was cool. I didn’t get to treflip into the bank then crooks like I wanted mostly because of them. But I did get fakie bigspin then noseslide to fakie and then a crooks or two.

I tried to end it with some flatground, but I was totally dead.

(setup null 8.25 nullosaur, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.6 red cast baseplate v-hollow hangers, bones hard bushings, 51mm bones stf 103a v2, es swift 1.5 b/w size 11.5 footprint 3mm flat insoles)
(pain level 3/10)

Was able to take a skate lunch break since I had logged in early with the late shift.  It was sunny and hot with some humidity.  I had put a cast baseplate back on and tighter bushings.  It felt weird at first and I once again felt very off on my board.  I got there first and thought that warming up might be impossible.  Dave showed and we checked out the barrier.  Still confused why the transition is on the side with the cracks, but oh well.  Dave did a few stalls on the low part, I did a couple.  Then we went into lines centered around curved beam.  Flip trick then boardslide then something.  Except I would slide about 1 foot of the end and Dave would be sliding the whole thing.  He had some really good boardslides and some to fakie.  He had kickflips, fakie sex change, a totally (not) clean halfcab flip (ha).  We would go on to the two cinder block ledges.  Dave had front boards, front 50s, front noses, switch front noses.  My flip trick game went better than yesterday.  I had heelflip, halfcab flips, fakie bigflip, kickflip over the parking block and was close to switch flips.  Then we mostly skated the two quick cinder ledges.  I had some good lines on paper.  Switch noses then front 50, front 50 then nollie front tail, noseslide to fakie then switch front nose, switch front nose then halfcab nose.  Then one that really made my day.  Boardslide then crooks then sketchy treflip.  Ended with another one that made my day.  Switch front nose then fakie 50.  Man I needed a good session so bad.  Whew.  Always fun skating with Dave.  At the end the Square State crew showed up and it was great seeing Brian, Rick and Christian.

(setup null 8.25 nullosaur, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.6 red cast baseplate v-hollow hangers, bones hard bushings, 51mm bones stf 103a v2, es swift 1.5 size 11.5 no insoles)
(pain level 4/10)

On a hot night I went to campus around 7.  I started at the slappy meetup curb.  Did a few slappy crooks and slappy front crooks.  I had put a new 8.25 together with 5.6 v-hollow and old 51mm bones v2s.  It felt great for slappies.  Then I went to the flagstone ledge.  I was in a funk and didn’t want to be around people so I was really annoyed when a couple people sat on a nearby ledge and watched me.  I was skating so incredibly terrible. I couldn’t even kickflip, literally took like 10 tries to get one.  I did however do okay with backside crooks and noseslides.  Hadn’t gotten to the point of trying front 50s when it started to rain.  So I skated the covered flatground area where a different couple came and sat and watched me not land anything.  I think it took 30 tries to get a halfcab flip.  Eventually the rain died down and I left considering leaving my skateboard behind for good.

(setup null 8.25 nullosaur, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.6 v-hollow, venom 88a bushings, 51mm bones stf 103a v2, es swift 1.5 size 11.5 no insoles)
(pain level 3/10 not much pain but had zero energy or pop)