Met up with Paul after work at dog park. I was wearing some bulky Emerica MJ reissues. They felt insane at first, but I have to admit very little pain. It took me a while to get going though. Paul had been there a bit, or maybe not too long. But he was doing slappy crooks back 180 out and he thought somehow I could just learn it in a few tries. Jason from 303 and Steeze were there, both were in good moods and fun to skate with as well. Paul was ripping as he does, but working mostly on slappy crooks 180s. He got a ton of them. I should have filmed him, but I was still skating. I tried a lot of noseslide 270 shoves on the metal bench and was only close a couple of times. Never got a treflip although felt like almost all of them were close. Started getting close to slappy crooks and since Paul was done skating he insisted on filming me try. I was so close. I also did several crooks on the bench, most of which felt decent. I struggled to pop in those shoes, but man I was in the least pain in a while. Fun night.

(setup 5/10 8.25 pmg, jessup ultragrip, ace 44, bones 52mm stf v1, emerica og-1 with footprints gamechanger insoles)
(pain level 3/10)