After work I went to dog park to meet Dave, Rob, Jesse, Paul. Much to my disappointment the dog park was covered in puddles. Rob was still charging the manny pad and I stuck over there. Paul joined and squeegeed it. Dave came over from the park and went right into shred mode. Some of the best I’ve seen him skate there. Front 50 180 the smaller narrow bench, wallies the grate, front board the curb over a puddle, front tail the picnic bench from the propped up grate, manuals, front 50 the c, nose manual, dude was shredding. It was inspiring and I wanted to turn it on by my feet, shoes and skateboard had other ideas. I went on to have an absolutely miserable and depressing session where I didn’t land anything. I had started with the thick vans insoles but after they sucked every ounce of pop out of my first ollie I put the Nike ones back in. I played a game of SKATE with Jesse later on where I landed a lot of non flippers, but once we got to the flipper section I couldn’t land anything. Rob had taken off earlier. Saw him get some front 50s and back 180 out, manuals, back 50s, halfcab noseslides, etc. Paul was doing his typical shredding.

(setup 1/10 8.3 pmg, jessup ultragrip, ace af1 55, snot 52 pink swirls, vans wayvee white size 12 nike sb dunk insoles)
(pain level 7/10 knee, foot, heel bruise from saturday)

After a couple days of laziness I was still feeling lazy, but forced myself over to the school in some new shoes. I intended to skate flatground, but after I couldn’t land a backside flip or fakie bigflip I kind of started just doing random stuff. Tried to do a line of ollie onto a narrow curb then front shove off, pop shove a manhole cover, ollie onto a rock. Never got it all. I had new shoes. Vans Wayvees. Wow they suck. I skated pretty hard, breaking in different shoes is rough.

(setup 3/10 8.3 pmg, jessup ultragrip, ace af1 55, snot 52 pink swirls, vans wayvee white size 12 nike sb dunk insoles)
(pain level 5/10 heel bruise from saturday)

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After a hike and some sitting in the creek we ended up at Wilville and would stay there most of the day. We started at the main mellow middle manny pad. Rob and Jake were already there snapping up onto the lower part and doing tricks on the bank. Lee ollied the brick wall like 5 times to get a nose bonk. He has insane pop. Joe got kickflip to fakie on the bank. Rob had a nice nose manual into the bank. Jack manualled the whole thing then out of it too which was bonkers. Jake and I battled stuff into the bank. I was trying fakie ollie onto the pad then switch 180 into it, but ended up giving up and instead doing kickflip up and ollie in. Jake would get front 180 then halfcab.

We went down to the rock area so Eckert could do a rock to fakie on the rock. Well, that was my idea for him anyway. It proved much harder than we thought. Although Leebo did back blunt in like two tries. Jake had a cool tailblock. Jack front shove fakie. Garrett’s tricks were cool too. I don’t remember doing much of anything there other than some drop ins and rock rides.

Next up we went to the narrow bank double set area. I had wanted to try a grind off the bank like I did before. I almost died rolling down one of the banks hanging up on the crack though. It hurt bad mentally and physically. Jack did some amazing sketchy bank to back 50 a table. I baby stepped to grinds and eventually got one and it felt cool. Garrett did some sick front 5-0s. Jack thought about 5-0 to fakie, but nope.

Then we went to the bikepath snowboard jump. I was oh so sore. I managed a kickflip that was super fun. Joe had one too and some shoves and a fakie flip on the bank. Rob had some lofty ollies. Lee had his patented mega front shove. Jack did some half impossible and a one foot or two before sketchily filming Garrett loft a kickflip. Fun day. Fun crew.

(setup 3/10 8.3 pmg, jessup ultragrip, ace af1 55, snot 52 pink swirls, new balance numeric 288S green/gum size 11.5 with 440 insoles)
(pain level 6/10)