After a terrible night of sleep I got out of bed and went for my Friday tradition of skating Boulder park before work. Warm up obviously took a bit. I had the park to myself for the first 45 minutes or so. In that time I basically just did some warm ups and battled a line I had thought about while laying in bed wishing I was sleeping. Front 50 the bump to ledge, kickflip to fakie the little escalator, halfcab noseslide the triangle ledge. It did not come easy. At least the roll in for setup is fun and when I finally got the line I did an accidental 5-0 that was not pretty. Oh well it felt cool to link up those tricks. I had done a few flatground tricks in between attempts. Around the time I got that line a dude showed up and was rattling off flip tricks in the flat of the new area as his warm up. I think he did a few tricks like fakie bigflip and treflip before kickflip. Then he went on to do double flip variations all over the place. On the bank, out of the bank, double varial flip flyouts. It was cool, he stomped ’em. I tried front 50 back 180 the mini bank to ledge for a while and couldn’t get it, also front halfcab heels over the hump which were surprisingly close. I ended on a crooks on the bench that took a few too many tries. I may be really enjoying my setup, but definitely struggling with crooks so far. For as tired as I was I was happy to skate as hard as I did.

(setup 8.5 null vhs deck, jessup ultragrip, ace af1 55, 52mm snot pink/yellow swirl 101a, new balance numeric 440 white/red size 12 half insoles)
(pain level 3/10)

Around 5 I met up with Rob on a super nice night. The park wasn’t too crowded, but everyone was skating and it was hard to get into a flow. It was a fun session though. I saw Rob get manual and nose manual around the curved pad, back 50 back 180, halfcab back 50 back 180 out, nollie front lip, halfcab noseslide and more. I skated pretty well for me again. Had a line of front 50 shove then fakie 50 switch front shove out on the lurb then curb, finally boardslide through 3 of the broken concrete sliders, a nose manual on the small pad. Close to back 50s the lurb and front 50s on the main benches. Flip tricks didn’t go great, but I had a great feeling halfcab flip and was really close to treflip.

(setup 8.5 null vhs deck, jessup ultragrip, ace af1 55, 52mm snot pink/yellow swirl 101a, new balance numeric 440 white/red size 12 half insoles)
(pain level 2/10 only!!!!)