After a busy Friday at work I met Rob on a hot afternoon. My first day skating in shorts this year. I had also wore some cupsole 288s again and completely hated them. Seriously at no point was I happy with anything about skateboarding and I came close to focusing my board multiple times. I saw Rob get a nice nose manual around the C pad, some back 50s, halfcab board the metal bench. Ripping. I would get some fakie flips and halfcab flips, almost a front shove off the c ledge, almost fakie 50 halfcab out the small pad. JJ would show up, rip it. Rob left and I attempted to keep skating, but ended up just chatting with JJ and it was cool.

(setup 8.25 null burnout stumpy, jessup pj ultragrip, venture 5.2 lows royal bushings, bones 52mm slims 99a stf 2 washers inside, new balance numeric 288S green/gum size 11.5 no insoles)
(pain level 4/10 knee pain wasn’t as bad but I hated the lack of board feel)

After a tough day at work and then dinner I met Skelly before 7 at Boulder park. Sean had been there a long time so he didn’t skate much. I kind of went through the motion and Sean wanted to film it. So basically everything I did is documented above. I mean I did a few of the lines multiple times and I almost manualed the bench at one point, but that’s about it. Pretty fun session.

(setup 8.25 null burnout stumpy, jessup pj ultragrip, venture 5.2 lows royal bushings, bones 52mm slims 99a stf 2 washers inside, new balance numeric 272 green 11.5 half 272/425 insoles)
(pain level 5/10 mostly just vulc pain)

Nice day, Rob and I had the dog park mostly to ourselves in the early evening. We played SKATE to get warmed up. Rob won it, we did quite a few no complies and stuff. I would go on to skate alright for me and I tried hard. Got quite a few flippers, but fell short of treflip variations. Came close to a line of manual the taller pad then ollie the cement A things. Had some nose manuals, crooks, typical stuff. Rob got back in the groove after his achilles flare up.

(setup 8.25 null burnout stumpy, jessup pj ultragrip, venture 5.2 lows royal bushings, bones 52mm slims 99a stf 2 washers inside, new balance numeric 272 green 11.5 half 272/425 insoles)
(pain level 5/10 mostly just vulc pain which i wasn’t expecting)