Nice day. Went to dog park and met Garrett and Joe after some slacking. Paul would show after a while too. I was there first and the crowd was kind of a weird mix of beginners and 303 dudes. I had changed setup to 8.5/14.25/aces and it felt big, but okay. I had some success popping up things, crooks. I was skating pretty mid though. Especially after it felt like I hyperextended my toes. Garrett and Joe showed. I switched from vulcs to cups in hope of less pain which worked. Joe wasn’t really feeling it, but still managed some quick bangers as he does. Garrett kickflipped off the kicker over the barrier and flowed around the park really well. Paul showed and eventually some flatground ensued. Garrett and Paul rattled off treflip after treflip and I kind of got one. Then Garrett said he’d get me a marg if I landed one. I kept trying and trying going so slow and eventually got two in a row. They felt so great. Paul also landed a few nollie frontside flips which he’s been working on lately. I would go on to get my first heelflip in forever too which also felt cool. Then we went and celebrated.

(setup 7/10 null 20 year 8.5/14.25, jessup ultragrip, ace af1 55 hollow, spitfire f4 99a 51mm classic, new balance numeric 600 black/gum size 12 currex runpro insoles after the 272s)
(pain level 5/10 toes from the hyper extension)

Up early on a cool morning met up with Jake, Venture Dave and Cass. There were quite a few other older folks there as well. I think the average age was around 50. Crazy. Dave was already manualling the long pad, shoving and got to impossibles soon. Jake was still in pain so stuck to killing the transition like the crazy qp by the big O replica. Some basics in the ledge area had been had. I took too long to do a halfcab noseslide and even longer to ollie up onto one of the benches. My flip tricks were going alright. I had gotten close to halfcab heel for the first time in forever. Cass had a beautiful front nose down the hubba. Seriously amazing. I tried to get a run going of crooks the ledge, axle stall the qp, fly out treflip. Tried so many, but never got too close to a treflip. It really bummed me out. Cass, Dave and I hit the mellow bank for a while. Well, cass was lining out kickflips over the a-frame as well as some flippers on the bank. I managed quite a few flippers but only the basics. Kickflip fakie, fakie flip, halfcab flip, b/s fip and couldn’t quite get fakie bigflip. Dave had some nice switch shoves, switch 270, casual impossibles and fakie impossibles. Twas a good session. Hanging after at Rest was fun.

(setup 4/10 8.25 pmg, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.6 v-hollow bones medium bushings, 51mm spitfire f4 99a classic, new balance numeric 272 teal size 12 with currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 4/10)