Up too early before the midwest moisture had burned off we delayed skating for some breakfast and a yummy nearby coffee joint then got to skating. I thought I felt good doing my morning exercises. Nope. I would go on to struggle something fierce. Joe was working the ledges in the actual pool area. I had tried messing around then went up to the very top area that has some seriously easy training wheels curbs which were fun. I had some 5-0s and 50s on a curb high one off a drop that was fun and some 180s off the next levels. I played with nose manuals on one of the little pads for a bit and got a couple, but couldn’t get shove out. I started playing with a line similar to the one at the start above but with a fakie 50 then wanted to switch 180 off the ledge, but the crack was preventing that. Then I started going the other way ollie up, front nose fakie, halfcab flip off the ledge. I did several halfcab flips on flat to try and get it dialed in off the ledge. I would get the line a couple times, but the halfcab flips were not great. Actually nothing was ha ha, but I was still pretty happy. Never halfcab flipped off a ledge that tall. Maybe not even off a curb? Or maybe once back off the little dock at Stonehenge. But yes it was really fun and I was very hyped to do it. Then I filmed Joe get a line in like 5 tries. Then a lot easier of a line above in about 20 tries ha ha.

After some driving we ended up at this weird bank at a cathedral which would normally be really fun and easyish to skate. But when you filmed like crazy the day before and session before it was a brutal warm up. I couldn’t kickflip and almost left my skateboard there. I tried some bigflips and didn’t get close. I finally got kickflip to fakie. Joe did a sick front shove over the hip. I tried no comply bigger spins for a while until the pain in my calf became way too much to keep skating. Then we got some margs to celebrate a fun trip!

(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 3/10 at slabs 8/10 at banks)