Up pretty early Joe and I got to Harrison St before the homeless had stopped pissing in the middle of the park (seriously right as we rolled up). Joe had skated there before. I was feeling pretty good actually even though it took us both a while to get used to the park and figure out what to skate. The first thing was the carve over the shallow end which resulted in a grind and was incredibly fun. Joe did the run to the boardslide. We tried some other stuff, I couldn’t quite grind the real quick transition by the big bowl. I took way to long to get the kickflip on the bank, but the grinds on the brick coping was super fun. Joe shut it down with the front shove and kickflip fakie line.

After an amazing lunch of Ethiopian food at Blue Nile cafe we ended up at the milk crate ledges. This spot has been on my list of spots for a long time and one of the main reasons I went to KC. I had no idea it was on such a hill which was a bit of a bummer. The top low ledge with regular angle iron was kind of actually the highlight. I would eventually calm down and get some of the longer crooks I’ve done in a while. Joe rattled off a few uphill frontside tricks. We started filming after a while, giving each other 3 tries to get some lines. I had fun basics line with crooks then slappy but couldn’t get a flipper after. Joe started his line with back 50 to boardslide 270 out. I went on to try fakie 50 and got this line a couple times very badly before trying to make it harder with a fakie front shove out which never worked. I eventually gave in to the soreness and exhaustion and filmed Joe get a banger fakie 50 to back 50. Fun day. Exactly why we went to KC. Skate a park, film some in the streets.

(setup 2/10 null 8.25 esher, thunder hollow light 148 with venom 88a bushings, bones pj stf v1 51mm, new balance numeric 440 white size 12 half insoles)
(pain level 4/10 not too bad initially)

First park was Harmon. It was very windy, pretty warm out, crowded with teenagers with ear buds. I hadn’t slept well and drove 10 hours over the last two days so my body was shot. Needless to say it resulted in me skating like complete garbage. I mostly hit the top area with some ledges and smaller qps with mud surrounding it. My board would go in the mud on my first attempt at a bank ride to 50 on the weird little bank thats there. After quite some time I would get a couple slow lines. Crooks, rock fakie, halfcab noseslide. Boardslide the flat bar, switch front nose. It was nice having a new crowd because the kids thought the switch front nose was “super sick”. Ha. I had tried some other stuff, but mostly nothing worked. I was there a couple hours.

After stopping at Escapist I ended up at a nearby park. It has a very gnarly bowl section and then some mellow bank with a couple ledges and flatbars which was kind of a dream park. Too bad I was beat beyond believe and so sore. There were only a couple other skaters there equipped with the required earbuds. I couldn’t get a crooks even. I went to do a kickflip and could barely stand up from it so I left.

(setup 1/10 null 8.25 esher, thunder hollow light 148 with venom 88a bushings, bones pj stf v1 51mm, new balance numeric 440 white size 12 half insoles)
(pain level 7/10 tired pain not so much the calf)

Feeling sore, but having some time to hit the side of the school Nate gave me a 10×10 list that I modified slightly. My calf was still pretty hosed so I went extra slow and just hucked away wearing some newish 440s again.

Kickflip – got a couple bad ones
Front Shove – yeah ha
Heelflip – nope
Fakie flip – felt okay
Fakie Varial Flip – Nope
Fakie Bigflip – Got a really bad one 10th try
Rick flip – Not too close
Treflip – Also not too close. I was really sore so went home after this instead of trying the next two.
Sw Flip
Nollie Flip

(setup 3/10 null 8.25 esher, thunder hollow light 148 with venom 88a bushings, bones pj stf v1 51mm, new balance numeric 440 white size 12 half insoles)
(pain level 4/10 right calf)

It’s been a few days since this session so it’s really tough to remember what happened. Luckily I had filmed some clips. I know I really sucked it up with the exception of a few crooks on the bump to ledge that felt good. I had worn 212s to try and limit the calf pain, they did, but everything else was super sore and I had to sit by the end of the session. Jack and Salty were there first. We spent like 15 minutes trying to get the heavy parking block onto the bank above the euro as bank to curb, but it didn’t fit. So it ended up as a fun boardslide off the bump. Or if you’re Dave, a fun grind. He did 50s and 50’s, even switch boardslide up, slappy crooks in and almost switch slappy crook halfcab transfer over which would have been nutso. Salty had some feebles to fakie on the upper qp which were crazy because he went down switch between the rail and hubba which may not look close, but it is. Also front slashes on the big qp and almost no comply shove up the euro. Jack had bump to board and then boardslide down the rail. Also nice ollies over the hip, shoves up the euro, no comply on the bank. Dave was shredding. Don’t remember all his lines, but there were some amazing long ones. Last thing he did was a few kickflips up the euro.

(setup 3/10 null 8.25 esher, thunder hollow light 148 with venom 88a bushings, bones pj stf v1 51mm, new balance numeric 212 b/w size 12 nike sb dunk insoles)
(pain level 5/10 right calf and both legs)