After a chill Friday of working at home I met up with Dave and then Paul at Valmont park. My warm ups were pretty embarrassing, but I got it together. Dave did a halfcab manual out of the bank that was really cool. He would go on to destroy the hip. Kickflip over the f/s hip, varial flip, f/s halfcab flip and FAKIE FLIP! I had attempted to film it all, but it turns out it overheated and missed all the tricks. Paul had done some good switch front 180s and back 180s. My first line was a shove on the bank, no comply on the hump, b/s flip over the hip. I took a while to get the worlds least popped halfcab flip (so glad my phone overheated ha ha!) and then spent like an hour trying to heelflip over the f/s hip which I have never done before. I got incredibly close, had several I thought would be makes, but somehow they weren’t. It was fun though. At the end Dennis showed up who I haven’t seen in a while and it was good catching up with him.

(setup 6/10 null 8.5/14.25 20 year, null grip, slappy 8.5 lights with ace bushings, 51mm pj bones stf 103a, new balance numeric 440v2 white size 11.5 half insole and currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 4/10 left knee is really swollen)

Thought I had more energy. Went to campus with a bigger setup. Started up near the tunnel to the hill. Tried a line for a while of a flip trick, a stall on the mini bank to curb, noseslide the sandblasted flagstone bench, kickflip a metal grate out of the kicker, ollie up the 3 stair. The line had started after trying most of the tricks during warm up. Flip tricks went alright I got halfcab flip and heelflip but then I started to really struggle with noseslides which I blame on me changing my setup like a moron. Anyway I never quite got the kickflip before a few people came out of the building and sat at a table. And I didn’t feel like stumbling around like a dork in front of them so I moved on. Had a fun downhill roll and ended up at the fitness center. Went into line mode there too. Flip trick, noseslide, front axle stall a bench, 180 a rock. But I got super tired or something and was totally sucking, missing noseslides even. I left feeling ultra depressed, but realized I was exhausted so whatever. Gonna miss these quiet summer nights on campus.

(setup 6/10 null 8.5/14.25 20 year, null grip, slappy 8.5 lights with ace bushings, 51mm pj bones stf 103a, new balance numeric 440v2 white size 11.5 half insole and currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 5/10 left knee is really swollen)