After some hesitancy I went to meet Rob and Mike and the standard dog park crew. Eric was there which was cool because it’s been a minute. The sun was out for a while, but then we got some good cloud cover that lasted for a couple of hours. I saw Eric get front boards on the taller concrete curbs and almost shove out. Didn’t see him get his patented quick heelflips which we’ll blame on an extended vacation. Rob seemed to rattle off the hits right away. Nollie front lip, nollie front 50 back 180, nose manuals, boardslide the tall bench, crooks, etc. It was good seeing Bratcher again as it’s been a minute. He switch ollied a parking block when I got there which he had never done before. Mike was getting his slappys on. I had a decent session. i think the clouds really helped out. Got a manual or two which has been rare lately, the best crooks I’ve done above the manny pad (which was only a couple of feet long and I have about 10 more to go but its progress) and finally got a Glen 50 on the bench which I’ve been scared of for months. i followed it with a terrible treflip. Mike and I went and played in the pond at the park for a bit. He had some good front slashes and a killer no comply. I did some axle stalls and took too long to do a kickflip fakie on a hump (what do you really call Evergreen skatepark’s “banks”? they aren’t banks, they aren’t quarterpipes they are just like dumb mounds that are sometimes kind of fun).

After some napping, cleaning and dinner I went to the side of the school with no real plan and did some flatground. It was a mellow little session with some dorking. I got 10 flippers total in an hour. Argh. Kickflip, fakie flip, b/s flip, halfcab flip, f/s halfcab flip, heelflip, f/s halfcab heel, varial flip, fakie bigflip, sex change. Was hyped to have skated.

(setup 8/10 null 8.25 spanbauer dead spots, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.2 v-cast low royal bushings, spitfire f4 51or52mm wheels 99a classic shape 4 washers inside, es melange black size 12 footprint gamechanger lite insoles)
(pain level 4/10)

Up kind of early trying to beat the heat Paul and I went to Golden park and met up with Jake. We walked up the hill to a popping session. There was some breakfast skate crew with a tent setup with free food, some tunes going. For how many people were there the park never felt crowded. Maybe because most of them stuck to the bowl. We started out at the little plaza area. Paul said the weird runway was hard for him as he rattled off trick after trick on the pad ledge. Jake had some some 180s and halfcabs off the pad along with some tilted manuals. Paul did the quick up onto the bench then front 50 I wanted to do. They both ollied up onto the taller ledge too then bounced to the main park. I was by my self for a bit wanting to do a couple things before moving on. I was able to ollie onto the taller ledge with a little truck tap which I was hyped on. Also a line of halfcab noseslide then crooks. Shortly after that Jake requested the first filming of the day and did his banger line starting with front smith. He got it first try and 4th try because the filmer messed it up the first try :). Then he did the front rock. Paul and I were feeling out some stuff on the ledges and qp. I was enjoying crooks, but struggling with back 50s on the no-deck qp. I did have fun with the line to the noseslide. After that I flimed Paul get both his lines so he’d have something too then I went in and STRUGGLED with treflips until I got something resembling a treflip. I was toast after that. Paul showed up Jake with front noseblunts on the bank and then we bounced for Bluecar.

(setup 3/10 8.3 pmg, jessup ultragrip, thunder 149 hollow no bottom washer, spitfire f4 99a 52mm classic shape washers outside, new balance numeric 306 blue size 12 footprint gameghanger insoles)
(pain level 4/10)