Met Dave on a cool night a little after 7. As we were getting started this random tweaker dude rolled in and boy was I not expecting that in Erie. He was British or something, singing, talking, asking for a new board. So I gave him a used one from my trunk and he was stoked, said he’d go pro now. He stuck around for a bit and entertained, but then Dave and I had the park all to ourselves. We warmed up differently. Dave was going for some rock jibs and bank rides to line out a nollie into the bank as well as some “poor mans front bluntsldies”. I had kind of thrown a few things out there before before settling on trying a line of flip trick up top, into the bank to quick powerslide to noseslide the tallish ledge, then kickflip to fakie from the upper wedge to lower one. Never got it, but did end up getting quite a few flippers in the process. Fakie bigflip being my fav. Dave would string together one heck of a line. Something like nollie into the bank, bigspin on a bank, back 360 the crazy qp to bank, switch back 180 up the bump, switch nose stall the bank to ledge. Amazing! I had a fun ride on grind, front 180 off a drop, switch front nose. Had one crooks, but mostly the ledge seemed so crazy tall. Then I tried to ollie up a ledge, ride on grind, kickflip off the drop but never committed to the kickflip. Would like to do that some time though. Dave got a kickflip on the bank and I got one to fakie “up” to the smaller bank. Then we jibbed the little divider between the low and high. Dave got front pivot which seems impossible. I got a no comply to tail. Lastly we messed around on the double wedge thing. It was fun. I had also done front 50 nollie shove, front 50 to grind down, the beanplant was silly but fun. Dave was flying when doing the switch grinds. Fun night. Wish ledges didn’t feel impossibly high anymore.

(setup 8.25 null vhs, jessup pj ultragrip, venture 5.6 v-hollow royal bushings flat top washer no big washer, 52mm spitfire f4 99a classic, new balance numeric 288S grey size 11.5 with thin 440 insole)
(pain level 3/10)

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