After a really hot day I drove through rain almost all the way to the school where Rob and Dave were sweeping the construction debris away. I attempted to start skating in some 868s, but they felt like moon boots and I switched to 440s. Also, even though I had fun on the 8.25/lows I tried my 8.3/thunders and stuck with it. We had a good session. Seemed like everyone was doing different stuff pretty quickly. Rob was doing fakie back nosegrind reverts on the curb over and over. Not sure I’ve ever seen him do that before. It encouraged me to try the regular fakie nosegrind revert which I definitely got close to, maybe even an over 50 make. It felt cool. Dave had kickflip to fakie on the bank, ride on grinds/slides on the curb, switch back 180s up the curb. I couldn’t do a halfcab flip to save my life and kept getting weird wheel bite almost turning me into doing a cab flip. I had some slappy hurricanes which I recently remembered to try again. Rob was going for slappy crooks to fakie, casually did boardslides to fakie, manuals, more that I’m forgetting. Dave became obsessed with switch shove front nose. Then we both tried to 50 the ledge that has grown incredibly tall over the years. Dave was going for back 50 after switch back 180 up and got denied. I was going backside after kickflip up the curb or frontside after pop shove up the curb and I got denied on both even when committing a lot. Argh. The pop shoves up the curb were fun though. After Rob had left Dave and I were messing around on the curb. I got a better slappy hurricane, some switch boardslide 180s out and then randomly posed a nollie front shove backside nose stall. I would get it in a few tries. Dave had been doing slappy front crook and sw slappy front crook then he joined in the nollie shove noseslide game. We would both get little slides with it. Such a cool feeling. I also got one or two to fakie. Then the darkness started weirding us out and we bounced. I think I may have broke my max number of setup changes this week. Yikes.

(setup 5/10 8.3 pmg, jessup ultragrip, thunder 149 hollow no bottom washer, spitfire f4 99a 52mm classic shape washers outside, new balance numeric 440 white size 12 half/no insoles)
(pain level 4/10)