Seattle Will is now Broomfield Will and things finally worked out for us to skate. We went to campus and went to the new ledge/ride on ledge. I quickly established I was super sore and unable to do much of anything. I had a ride on grind to fakie then switch front nose and some slappy crooks. Will took a bit to get used to the ride on grind then did a bunch. Also some really casual front 50s on the regular ledge. Then we went to the Baker ledge but were so tired we didn’t do much. He did get a switch manual though. Other than that it was just some noseslides from us and I lacked all confidence or motivation. We had fun walking around and showing him some other spots.

(setup 2/10 8.25 null all you need, jessup ultragrip, thunder 148 hollow lights with royal bushings, spitfire f4 99a 52mm classic shape yellow, new balance numeric 574 blue size 11.5 half insole and currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 6/10)

Met up with Carleigh after work at Valmont. Yes, Carleigh! She was there with Zack and Marg. We hung for a bit. Rob showed. We skated Valmont briefly. I think Carleigh kickflipped the hip, I posed a few flippers. Zack did a cool ride on grind into the deep end of the bowl.

Over to the ledges I saw Carleigh piece together a quick up onto the manny pad then boardslide off followed by a front 50 on the lurb. Rob didn’t get a first try kickflip for the first time in a while, but I think got it second try. Also some nice manuals some of which he dropped down and kept manualling. Back 50 back 180 out followed by halfcab noseslide. Paul had shown and was quickly rattling off Sean tricks like back 5-0 front 180 out and nosegrinds. But he also had some mean switch slappy crooks. I tried like a million kickflip back 50s and didn’t get a single one. I also tried several front nosegrind 180s and dragged my back wheels along the ledge on the 180 every time. Argh. Other than that I had some okay crooks on the back of the two step and one slow treflip that felt decent. Dave had shown up after Carleigh had left. He was flipping his board more than normal, somewhat close on several treflips. He took a long time to get a nose manual, was kind of losing his mind, but once he did he got a nosegrind in a few tries. Eric showed up as we were leaving and they had a little barrier session. I was too sore to keep skating. They both did boardslides to fakie which they hadn’t done before. They also did barrier firsts of feeble to fakie and lien to tail. Rippers! Also ripping were Austin, Eric and Jason. Eric’s nollie flip over the parking block then treflip was so good.

(setup 5/10 8.25 null all you need, jessup ultragrip, thunder 148 hollow lights with royal bushings, spitfire f4 99a 52mm classic shape yellow, new balance numeric 574 blue size 11.5 half insole and currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 3/10)