It’s been way too long since I’ve seen Dave. He’s been out with serious back pain for a while, I’ve been dealing with my knee issues. We met up at Glenn Close. I had got there first and was pleasantly surprised to do the manual from the curb cut to the little broken bank second try. Dave would go in on the manual too and we would both get it. Dave was skating really well. Nollie front 180 into a curb cut, f/s halfcab tail stall the next. I took too long to do the little axle stall 270 thing on the broken bank. Dave went in on f/s halfcab flip tail and would of course mostly get it. Then we went to the side of the school. Dave had a cool line of grind the low part of a bike rack, wallie nollie, ride between some sketchy close poles, nollie 180, switch slappy crooks, kickflip, varial flip. The insanity! I had some cab kickturns on the shed bank, slappy crooks, frontside slappies, front slappy crooks. Dave did switch slappy then fakie flip and nollie back tail. I took way too long to eek out some tiny switch slappy crooks which seem so hard to me. Fun session. We skated. I managed to resist popping and didn’t hurt my knee I think.

(setup 6/10 8.25 pmg, jessup ultragrip, royal 144 hollow kingpin, bones stf v1 pj 103a, es swift b/w size 12 left foot with a spenco orthotic insole)
(pain level 3/10 but I didn’t pop)

In the afternoon went over and did a few slappy crooks, manual attempts from the curb cut to bank, front slappies. First with my 8.5 setup, then with my 8.25 which felt better.