Great start to 2022!

On a cool day I went out skating around noon still avoiding people in case covid was still contagious. I started at a random curb are on Valmont. I looked for a low curb to try Dave’s latest challenge – switch pivot shove. So I found an area that was dry with good asphalt for flatground too. I didn’t have the same juice as the day before. I started in my 440 Highs which I didn’t like. I did some other stalls and stuff to get warmed up. Couldn’t quite get kickflip axle. Went in on the switch pivot and could not get up onto the curb in pivot to save my life. Had a fun front disaster, but I left after a while with no real plan.

Ended up in a parking lot I had somehow never seen before off Central. I started on a low curb trying the switch pivot again and was once again not close at all. I went over to a 3 stair area and would eventually get a line that sounds alright on paper. Kickflip up a curb, noseslide a tallish bench, ollie the 3 stair (would be so much better if I went faster and ollied past the crack) then a b/s flip on flat. I couldn’t get treflip or halfcab heel on flat. Was going to line out something starting with fakie ollie up the curb, but instead I fizzled out and went looking for something new.

Ended up at the weird little crusty hip. Took too many tries to get a b/s flip. I probably would have tried some more tricks, but there is a homeless camp and I felt bad making noise.

Last I ended up at a manny pad off Pearl and 55th I hadn’t actually skated before. I was pretty dead at this point and probably looked super pathetic to the many cars driving by. I would only get a manual, some kickflips and remotely close to nollie flip. Long day. I probably made covid worse by skating so much.

(setup null burnout stumpy 8″, pj jessup ultragrip, venture 5.2 high cast plate hollow hanger venom 91a bushings both washers, 51mm spitfire f4 101a classic shape, new balance numeric 288S grey size 11.5)
(pain level 3/10 pretty sore)