After a chill Friday at work for once I went behind the school on a cold afternoon. After a brief warm up I went in on a list that Nate and I came up with. I never anticipated getting many of these as it’s been too long. So here’s the tricks and an emoji describing how I feel about the tricks.

fakie flip 😕
bs flip 😕
fakie bigflip 🤷‍♂️
halfcab heel 😊
front heel 👴🏼
nollie varial flip 😡
fakie tre 😢
fs flip 🗑
fakie varial heel 🚫
nollie inward heel 🚫

The only trick I was happy with was halfcab heel. I tried fakie tre and nollie varial flip the longest. I was so close. The fakie varial heel could have been closer, but I was beat by then.

(8.25 null spanbauer, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.6 cast plate titanium hanger, venom 91a bushings, spitfire 51mm 101a classic shape, new balance numeric 288S b/w size 11.5 no insoles)
(pain level 2/10)

On a really cold and snowy night I mustered the motivation to scrape off the car and go to Square House. It ended up being a pretty epic crew and a really fun session. Eric, Furlong, Brian, Christian, David, Kyle, Saul, Ted and more. Obviously the crew is way too big to remember everything. I’ll start with Brian because I’m so grateful he is down for old man night. Saw some classics like fakie feeble fakie, carve grinds, windshield wiper, tough guys, no one footed front rocks while kicking a kid on a bike though. I haven’t seen Furlong skate in forever so that was a special treat. He still has it. Blunt to back tail, back tails with both feet on the tail, blunt rock fakies, smiths, lots of style. The trick of the day appeared to be fakie lipslides. Eric and David were doing them. Eric also did fakie tailslides, back lip, front 5-0, back 50s fakie. Christian is such a beat. At one point Brian and I just looked at each other and laughed. He was doing runs with so many tricks like back d to sugarcane, the Darin, long back tails, back blunts, everything. Saul and I went over to the ‘street’ section for a while. He did a bunch of slappies. I took way too long to get a line of ollie the 3 stair then kickflip to fakie the bank. Then I took way too long to kickflip up the euro and then once again way too long to backside flip up it. But I was happy to do that at least. Eric had come over and almost heelflipped up it first try, but then also struggled. Back to the ramp I got a hurricane, some front 50s, front d, some fakie revert stuff. It was tough for me to not last as long as others, but I was beat and called it a night before the session was over. Fun times, rad crew, thank you Brian!

(8.25 null spanbauer, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.6 cast plate titanium hanger, venom 91a bushings, spitfire 51mm 101a classic shape, new balance numeric 288S b/w size 11.5 no insoles)
(pain level 3/10)

Got to the tennis court shortly before the sun set. It was cold. I pushed around a bit and bailed a few slappy crooks. What the heck. I didn’t have much energy or drive and my legs felt very heavy. I skated for about an hour. Had a good feeling manual on the little pad, struggled to get a terrible little front 50 on the ledge, crooks, halfcab flips. Nothing really stands out, I don’t like the feel of 8.25 with 5.6s, but I’m going to try and stick with it.

(8.25 null spanbauer, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.6 cast plate titanium hanger, venom 91a bushings, spitfire 51mm 101a classic shape, new balance numeric 288S b/w size 11.5 no insoles)
(pain level 4/10)