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On an incredibly windy night I drove through broken traffic lights to end up in Frederick at Will’s. He immediately pointed out I was late. Ha. Will was already shredding. I guess Dave was “late” too. Warming up took a bit. The ‘mandatory flatground’ was initially front bigspin. None of us got it. My first couple felt close then I was not close at all. Will was close to a couple. Switch Dave almost did it switch. I spent a lot of time trying to do back 50s to fakie. I hadn’t done a grinding one in a long time. I would get one, but it wasn’t good. Was happy to get front 50 and disaster easily and kind of a weird cab rock which I haven’t done in a long time. Will got a bunch of front smiths, front tails, 5-0s, fakie stalls. Dave had good boardslides to fakie, rolled in again. Near the end his special mode was activated. He did switch front shove, back tail. Then would go on to do his first ever switch back shove as captured above. Will did a bunch of stationary treflips and motivated me to try some. I would get 1, maybe 2. It felt good, I’ve never done them stationary before. Seems to really help with form. My legs were not excited to jump though. Anyway, fun night. Oh yeah, I hucked a few bigflips on the transition at the end and was remotely close.

(setup null 8″ burnout stumpy, jessup pj ultragrip, venture 5.2 v-hollow highs bones medium bushings, boardycakes 49.99mm round ups 2 washers inside, new balance numeric 440 high b/w size 12)
(pain level 3/10)

On a pretty nice night I went to campus for the first time in months. I was armed with high top shoes in hopes that maybe that is what it would take to help the achilles. It may have helped, but we’ll see in the long run. I struggled through a couple slappy crooks then went down the little sidewalk towards the underpass. It was crazy skating even a little hill, it’s been too long. Add in lots of gravel from winter and it was a little scary. I ended up at the new business area and randomly chose to warm up on a little median doing various nose/tail stall variations that didn’t involve popping. It was pretty fun, I tried to front 270 out of a few ‘nollie’ front tails and they felt pretty doable. I did a couple that didn’t count at all, but still felt fun. I started getting kickflips and fakie flips. Oh yeah, I had put high trucks on to make things weird. Then I went in on trying to front 180 the little median. The other side was a slight drop into a slight bank. I would never get it. I committed a few times, but had no pop. It was a bummer, but luckily I had gotten a couple basic flippers to ease the pain. I went around the corner to the brightly lit tall wood benches and man they felt tall. I only got noseslide barely. Then I tried a line of switch 180, boardslide the long curb, ollie a manhole, front nose a bench. The front nose was the worst one ever done. The manhole ollies were terrible too. I was leaving when I noticed some tables had been cleared from a concrete ledge which looked inviting. Did a line of front 180 up a little step, switch back 180 on flat, noseslide to fakie. So I skated pretty terrible, but being out in the streets felt good so it was mostly fun.

(setup null 8″ burnout stumpy, jessup pj ultragrip, venture 5.2 v-hollow highs bones medium bushings, boardycakes 49.99mm round ups 2 washers inside, new balance numeric 440 high b/w size 12)
(pain level 3/10)