Super weird day. Went on a hike up at Caribou with Liz to cool down. We got more than we bargained for and get stuck in a crazy thunderstorm getting totally soaked and hailed on. But it was still quite hot down here. Around sunset I drove towards a thunderstorm and met Mike, Rob and Dave at the quickly drying Frederick skatepark. It was fun skating with lightning in the distance. Seemed like all of us were skating decent somewhat quickly. Saw Rob do a bigspin on the steeper ban right away, Mike a front shove to fakie on the mellow bank, Dave manly feeble transfer into the double bank. There wasn’t really a main group session, we seemed mostly cruising doing our things. The park is really fun, hard to focus on one thing. I saw Rob to back smith, front tail, pivot the bank to curb, manuals, boardslides, front boards, and shredded the shred graffiti with a front board. Mike had some killer long slappies and boardslides, deck check up the euro, maybe no comply 180 over the a-frame, way more than I remember. I couldn’t get a treflip to fakie and was lucky not to roll my ankle. I did have some easy kickflips trying to line out noseslide and ollie up the euro but the darn youth in the pink shirt kept getting in my way. Only new thing I did was a front 180 up the bigger ledge which felt cool, got one regular ollie up and then bailed the kickflip off. Dave got me to ollie up the euro. Dave was ripping. He had some cool combos on the double bank to curb and a special front tail to accidental revert. He was getting up the euro pretty often, dropped down to manual, front bluntslide the mellow bank, dump truck 180 into the bank. It was a fun night with a rad crew, my body was really hurting though. Could have gone for less pain.

(setup 7/10 8.1 null all you need, jessup ultragrip, thunder hollow 147, 51mm spitfire f4 classic 101a, new balance numeric 288 sport white size 12)
(pain level 7/10 knees and feet)

After a really bad day of work I needed to get out. With only a few more days of campus being empty I pushed down the bikepath to Wilville on a hot evening. I started near the little round curb and did a little line of front smith stall, kickflip, nollie 180, switch 180, noseslide the flagstone. Oh yeah, I had assembled a totally different complete. 8.1 with Thunder hollow 147s. And I really liked it. Especially after what felt like the easiest halfcab flip of my life. I ended up at the main manny pad area although I didn’t really do much into it, just a nose manual or two. I skated the ledge a bit even though it’s crusty managed a couple really slow front 50s, nollie tails, halfcab noseslide and worked up to a f/s halfcab noseslide that felt awesome. I guess I did to a line of nose manual into the bank, curve around ollie up front shove which was supposed to go to fakie but I reverted and my feet were barely on the board and I managed to still make it off the curb and it made me laugh. I went to leave, but got motivated to try a line at the ledge area. Fakie varial flip, switch noseslide 270 shove, ollie onto a taller ledge which I’ve only ollied onto a few times. I couldn’t get the fakie varial flip though or even fakie flip. Lots of cracks messing up my flow. But I think I did get something like halfcab flip, switch nose jib, ollie on and I was hyped. My knee was hurting so I left. But I was happy to have skated and goofed around trying lines at a street spot.

(setup 6/10 8.1 null all you need, jessup ultragrip, thunder hollow 147, 51mm spitfire f4 classic 101a, new balance numeric 288 sport white size 12)
(pain level 5/10)

After work on a nice warm evening I was searching for some motivation and thought of a line I had wanted to do at Basemar on a recent walk. Things started slow, ollies felt bad. I had thought a warm up line of kickflip the bump, ollie into the mini bank of the bike path, then nollie bigspin on the same bank further down. I had kind of done it, but super sloppy and had cracked my board pretty bad. A few more tries I snapped the board. Doh. I went to my car and took out the other complete and went to do the same thing and had a bit more luck. The desired line was backside flip the bump, switch 180 into the bank, kickflip the bank. But after I did the first b/s flip I realized there was no chance I could switch 180 in. So i just took a while to do the b/s flip. I didn’t like either setups and felt somewhat excited that I’d be forced to change.

(setups 8.25s royals/mini logos/52s, new balance numeric 288sport white size 12)
(pain level 3/10!)