After a bleak day of work I went home for dinner and chilled a bit as thunderstorms rolled through. It cleared up and I had kind of obsessed with the Folsom Field bank to curb spot so I went there. It was a fun downhill roll there going kind of fast at times being scared of hitting a crack. Made more scarier by a setup change and new shoes. It was very humid out. Well, very humid for Colorado which is probably only like 50% or something. But it almost felt hard to breath at first and I was sweating like crazy. I warmed up with some noseslides to fakie without olleing onto the bank, just a quick little push. And it actually took a few tries to commit to the role off the curb. Geez. This spot has always been way harder for me than it looks. Then I started ollieing on and doing flippers on flat and stuff. Would get several of the 180 stalls that are really fun. My dream is to do a kickflip out. It felt realistic at time, unrealistic at times. I got through quite a few flippers, but was kind of running low on energy. After a while I left and ended up at the little manny pad parking lot where I only manualled and came close to switch 180 manual and nose manual 180. Then nearby I tried to front 50 a waxed part of the banked ledge, but a cop drove by so I left. I hucked a few nollie bs flips that felt close. Then I went to the little tiny downhill curb ledge where I completely struggled to front 50 it, but man I was close to some slow uphill switch flips! Fun session though, I skated hard, it was fun.

(setup 7/10 8.5/14.25 null 20 year, null grip, thunder 149 hollow lights with royal bushings, 52mm spitfire 52mm yellow classic shape f4 99a, new balance numeric 440v2 white size 11.5 wide, half 574 insole and currex runpro insole)
(pain level 3/10)

After a day of being in the nice AC of the office I walked out after work and it was way nicer out than I had thought. There were clouds and it had cooled down. I pinged Rob and we met at dog park. I had started on my 8.25, went to my 8.5 and actually landed something, then went back to the 8.25. While on the 8.5 I landed a line I had tried the previous time. Switch front nose the metal bench, fakie flip on flat, switch front board the little flat bar (almost a fakie tre after too!). I actually did the line twice, but the second time was way better. After that I don’t remember much of myself other than I hucked some treflips off the grate that felt very doable. I got to the point of committing the back foot, but not the front. Rob had done some manual, nose manual the C pad, back 50s, almost front 50 to front lip, first try kickflip, steezy front noseslides. Paul did a back 50 on the bench on his first line in the park. He definitely isn’t in his 50s. Is he actually even in his 40s? Ha. But he went on to learn slappy back 180 out and then slappy back 360 out which was pretty amazing.

(setups 8.25/8.5 with slappy and didn’t really like either but that might also be because I was stuck wearing the 600s which I do not like compared to the 440s)
(pain level 4/10)