Josh made me a 10×10 list. I went over to the school, warmed up with some slappies and tried to get the flatground going even though my body wasn’t feeling very good.

Kickflip – first try, but couldn’t get the 5 in a row I like to do to warm up
Halfcab flip was over 10 tries and quite upsetting.
Backside flip got the tic tac version in a few tries.
Fs halfcab flip felt much better than it looks
Fs flip not close
Heelflip the bail really hurt and the make barely got around.
Fs halfcab heelflip not so close which was a bummer.
Treflip man that was tough I was really committing and it just wouldn’t happen
Varial flop
Front heel was too tired and never really committed.

Almost all of these tricks used to be automatic for me. Getting older is really difficult, but it’s probably not even just that. I’m going to blame bigger boards a bit. I mean, why not right?

(setup null vhs 8.3, jessup ultragrip, royal 149 ultralights, 52mm bones 103a stf v1, new balance numeric 288sport green/gum 11.5 with half 440 insoles)
(pain level 4/10)

After work and a quick dinner I picked up Dave and we went to the small Stephen Day park. After a brush with fame (ha ha) we got to skating. It’s been a few days, but I think we started off alright without too long of a warm up period. Dave waxed the hip and tailslides were quick on the agenda as were manuals on the decks. Turned into a pretty fun session when we weren’t too interrupted by kids playing scooters. I did a lot of noseslides and kickflips. I thought I was close to the ollie over bar at one point, but then got sore and lost it. The line of noseslide the rounded ledge, kickflip fakie on the bank then switch front nose was fun even if it’s the same tricks I always do. Had a fun halfcab noseslide and crook on the straight part of the C ledge. Had a fun line of noseslide the bigger bump to ledge then b/s flip flyout. As the lightning settled I was trying a line of front 180 fly out, switch nose jib into the bank, front 50 the C. But I could never get the front 50 and I got so mad. Hard to leave on such a bad note after a really fun session. Dave killed it. He had done the halfcab blunt to back tail earlier on too. He had lots of good ollies and nollies over the hip, bluntslides, 50 the bump to ledge, hippy jump the down bar, front noseslides. The halfcab bluntslide to back tail was the hammer of the day for sure.

(setup null vhs 8.3, jessup ultragrip, royal 149 ultralights, 52mm bones 103a stf v1, new balance numeric 288sport green/gum 11.5 with half 440 insoles)
(pain level 5/10 been so sore lately and no idea why)