After work went to campus, started at the dreadful tall flagstone ledge and ended up staying there for most of my session. The flatground in the nearby hallway is so good. I had another setup change that I liked quite a bit. 8.25 with slace 8.5 trucks. I would get quite a few slow flippers in between flails at the ledge. Flippers were kickflip, fakie flip, halfcab flip, heelflip, f/s halfcab flip, f/s halfcab heelflip and a nollie tre! It’s seriously been years on the nollie tre! I was so hyped even if it was terrible and I put a hand down. It didn’t carry over to being able to front 50 the ledge though. I did ollie onto the ledge at least, had some noseslides, a couple crooks that felt good. Then to the nearby tiny rusted metal ledge to show I can 50 6″ tall ledges. Then around the corner to a dirty loading dock that I wanted to ollie onto. I saw a long piece of angle iron and decided I should line it out. Firecracker a 2, slappy the angle iron, ollie very badly up the loading dock, front 180 off it, almost fakie flip. My knees were sore so I called it.

(setup 6/10 8.25 null dead spots, jessup ultragrip, slace 8.5, bones 52mm v1 stf, new balance numeric 440v2 white size 11.5 wide with currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 4/10 some calf and knee pain)

On a super nice night I met Dave and then Nate at dog park. Dave and I had been warming up before Nate showed. At the dog park I saw Dave try fakie 50 halfcabs and was surprisingly struggling with them, fakie back nosegrind, ollie up then nollie back 180 off the c pad. Nate casually front nosegrind the c lurb, front smith it, back and front 5-0s, casual killing. I tried some nosegrind 180s on the c lurb but never quite went fast enough or committed enough. I struggled to kickflip over a parking block which was supposed to set me up to front 50 the bench which I never did. I had on front 50 shove on the c lurb. All this while some some alpha male had to show us how fast he could skate and do the same 2 tricks over and over.

Dave’s back was hurting so we went over to the low impact zone with the scooter kids. Nate had a really good first try ollie the euro. We were treated to some Dave magic although I forget the trick that stood out to make me think that. Kickflips over the hip both ways, solid f/s halfcab over the hip. I pretty much only tried to b/s flip the euro hip and would eventually get it and was quite happy about it. Dave had left. Nate and I did some boardslides into the bank as the wind kicked in. I couldn’t quite get a kickflip to fakie on the shark fin.

(setup 4/10 8.25 pmg, jessup ultragrip, thunder team hollow 148 royal bushings, 52mm bones stf v1, new balance numeric 440v2 11.5 wide with currex runpro insoles and half 440 insole)
(pain level 3/10 calf pain went away as I was skating it was crazy!)

Went a little early to meet Nolan, Garrett, Sean and Riley. Yes, I said Riley! He’s gotten his knee fixed and still recovering, but he still managed to rip. Anyway, Spencer was there with some ripping friends too, was fun to watch. I didn’t skate too well even though my calf had felt better when I started out. I struggled to get a fakie flip on the mellow bank. Couldn’t get crooks on the ledge. Had some okay noseslides on the bump to ledge although most of the time I would chicken out. After some time I started just filming the ripping. Sean’s back nosegrinds were unreal. Garrett was shredding everything, his style keeps getting better and better. He learned two boardslide variations like it was nothing. Nolan had some boardslide combos too. The star of the show was Riley though when them fakie shove switch nose manuals. Unreal!

(setup 4/10 null 20 year 8.5/14.25, jessup ultragrip, thunder hollow 149 royal bushings, spitfire 52mm 99a tablet, new balance numeric 440v2 wide size 11.5 with currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 6/10 general soreness)