Went to the side of the school on a cool night and didn’t land much of anything. I had a new deck, it felt pretty good. Also forged plates, eh. Some slappy crooks felt good, kickflips were still harder than they should be. I only also got halfcab flip, fakie flip and backside flip. Hucked quite a few other random tricks, but nothing stuck.

(setup 8.25 null burnout stumpy, jessup pj ultragrip, venture 5.6 v-hollow royal bushings flat top washer, bones 52mm slims 99a stf, new balance numeric 272 black size 12 half 272/425 insoles)
(pain level 4/10)

After dinner I went to Longmont and met Dave at Rocky Mountain. I felt better as far as less chest pain, but it was still nagging throughout the session. We both started on the curb. Dave started doing a line of nollie to fakie on the bank and did a million front crooks on the curb. Like really, he just kept doing them. Some fell into noseslide, some stuck, but he got into most of them. I had a couple of those nollie bigspins on the bank, noseslides, couldn’t get crooks on the ledge. Flip tricks didn’t go well for me. Oh yeah, I had started on my 8.3, but then switched back to the 8.25 and was much happier. Tried some front 50s on the ledge and failed. Dave was charging near the end trying a line of slappy crooks to fakie then switch bigspin front nose. He didn’t quite get the sbsfn, but he was really close. I did some slappy crooks and got one slappy front crook. Fun night, rad spot. I had some motivation while skating, but just didn’t land much.

(setup 8.25 null spanbauer, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.6 cast plate v-hollow hanger with royal bushings flat top washer, bones 52mm slims 99a stf, new balance numeric 272 black size 12 half 272/425 insoles)
(pain level 4/10 knees were sore from actually skating again)

Up kind of early I went to the side of the school and skated flatground before breakfast. As expected it did not go well, but I may have gotten a bit of confidence. I think I landed like 3 tricks in an hour. Fakie bigflip first try being the only remote highlight. I did huck a lot though. Maybe one of these years it will pay off.

Then I went to Valmont to meet a lot of people. Donnie and I started on a parking block propped onto the banked curb which was fun. I got slappy crooks, he did a bunch of front slappies. Then we hit dog park briefly until Nolan showed up and we went over to Valmont. It was fun cruising around, I got a little courage back. I hucked a lot of front halfcab heels on the bank and didn’t get any, but Sean did. Then I mostly filmed the dudes get buck. Nolan was shredding it so quickly. Donnie proved he’s skated the park the most. Hayden picked some ultra cool lines. Sean ollied the park. Joe’s ghetto bird on the hump was epic. Garrett was slamming a lot but that feeble then kickflip was hot.

Then we went to HH. Donnie slammed really hard on a back 50 to start and it got me scared of falling on my ribs so I just went over to the ledge area with most others. It looked like the dudes were having a good time in the park. Joe did like a million front crooks through the corner. Hayden almost got a cool noseslide shove the hard way through the corner. I did one tiny noseslide through it and bailed a bunch of flip tricks. Garrett had some amazing crooks. Then we went and had a couple drinks and celebrated radness.

(setup 8.25 null spanbauer, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.6 cast plate v-hollow hanger with royal bushings flat top washer, bones 52mm slims 99a stf, new balance numeric 272 black size 12 half 272/425 insoles)
(pain level 5/10 just a lot of pain)