After a couple of days away from skating I had hoped my knee pain would be non-existent. Nope. The first ollie hurt as did each trick after. Satellite Nick had joined and was quick to boardslide everything. I may have done a variation of a switch crook, but other then that struggled with everything. We went over to the skatepark. Had some manuals on the deck and volcano, some ollies. Nick had some cool powerslides and shoves.

(setup null 8.25 vhs, jessup pj ultragrip, thunder 148 hollow lights venom 88a bushings, 52mm bones stf 103a v1, new balance numeric 212 b/w size 12 272 insole)
(pain level 7/10 starting to not be worth it)

Went to campus solo before a filming mission. Started near the hill area with the flagstone bench and slight bank to curb. Ended up skating like I don’t believe I have before which was fun. Do a stall trick on the bank to curb above the death stairs then a ledge trick then something. I think the first was a front pivot then a boardslide then back 180. Then front tail, noseslide, kickflip. I don’t really remember the sequence, but I was having fun and skating with some motivation. I got a couple crooks and went down into the drama building loading dock and turned around and tried to ollie up the 3 stair, but wasn’t close at all. I tried to film a couple crooks and could no longer do them which was the start of my frustrations. So I cruised down the hill aimlessly for a while and eventually ended up at a really hard 1 up 2 up 4 down which was not what I needed. I went to an old amazing spot that is knobbed, slammed on a manual and walked home with my tail between my legs ultra bummed.

After filming Garrett and Joe do some amazing stuff we ended up at Indian Peaks where we haven’t been in a long time. I somehow didn’t feel super terrible so I did a couple kickflips to make my day feel somewhat better. Garrett did some good wallies, but wasn’t feeling the trick he really wanted to try.

(setup null 8.25 vhs, jessup pj ultragrip, thunder 148 hollow lights venom 88a bushings, 52mm bones stf 103a v1, new balance numeric 425 black/gum size 11.5 half 440 insole then some 212s later)
(pain level 7/10)

Somehow I have no clips of it, but we went to a new spot Cass had found on a hot and sunny morning. The crew was Cass, Kevin, Nick, Venture Dave, Jake. The spot is epic. Slappy curbs, 2 stairs, ledges, good flatground. I was the last one there, had some sock and shoe issues and ended up changing things around. Mostly started with some flatground that didn’t work too well. Although Jake challenged us to do all the 180s in a row which we did. I had a fun 180 a tiny grate then halfcab flip into a slight bank. Also close to a line of fakie flip, halfcab flip, b/s flip into the slight bank. Dave was doing shoves, impossibles, 5-0s on the curb and then later on fakie front noseslides. Jake kind of hurt himself on a kickflip which was a bummer. Cass had a great hardflip on flat and almost another off the two stair, front board pop out the slappy curb. Kevin was shredding as always and worked hard for a line of heelflip into the slight bank, nollie flip on flat then nosegrind pop up the 2 stair. He had also tried for quite some time to crook bonk down the a sign. Nick made some things look pretty effortless like b/s flipping up a two stair. Not sure if he actually got it or not. I was kind of on my own over at the slappy area for a while. Did two lines that were quite fun. Slappy crook, front 180 off a curb, switch 180 up the curb, noseslide a ledge, front 180 up a two stair. Then nollie back tail a curb, slappy crook a curb, kickflip off a curb, back 180 up a curb, switch front nose a ledge, turn around, front 180 up the two. It’s just a bunch of basics, but it was quite fun.

Then we went to the nearby rino art installation spot which I had never actually skated. Kevin and Jake battled pivot fakie on the main little steep qp, Kevin won. Cass had some nice rock fakies. I kind of did some rock ‘n rolls. Also a version of a layback front rock first try in which Jake said he’d get me a car if I did it first try. I hope he gets me a minivan. I had some more fun doing some basic axle stalls and drop ins in weird places that funneled into the ditch where I did some rock ‘n rolls and slappy crooks.

(setup null 8.25 vhs, jessup pj ultragrip, thunder 148 hollow lights venom 88a bushings, 52mm bones stf 103a v1, new balance numeric 272 maroon 11.5 half insole)
(pain level 5/10)