On a beautiful warm fall day I went to meet Rob and Dave. I arrived first and started at the dog park and was kind of in a groove. Rob showed and went to do some warm up carves when Dave showed too so I went over to the park. Rob was smart to avoid it as there was a million bikers and toddlers on striders or scooters. It was maddening at times. Dangerous too. I was trying a line of kickflip to fakie then halfcab flip on the shark fin, then changed to 180 off the kicker to start. Came kind of close, but never got the halfcab. I had tried some other random stuff, before sticking with no comply pole jam then kickflip on the weird lumpy hip. Took a while to get the pole jam and the timing with all the randoms looping around the kickflip timing was weird too. Oh well, it was really fun when I landed it. Dave had tried a bunch of shove tail bashes over the hip, but never quite got it, some good ollies on the lumpy hip, switch back 180 the hip, kickflips on the bank, no comply pole jam, casual tricks that he does. Then we went over to the dog park as it got dark. I got a couple bad boardslides up the angled bar to manny pad, but started to chill since my achilles started hurting. It had felt really good for a while so I had no problems stopping. Although my knee pain is still pretty severe. Dave however would get it to manual really quick and then also to fakie with a f/s halfcab off.

(setup 2/10 8.25 null abstract, jessup ultragrip, ace af1 44, spitfire f4 99a classic yellow 52mm, new balance numeric 440v2 wide high black size 12 half 574 insole and currex runpro insole)
(pain level 6/10 left knee)

My achilles was feeling better after the skating so that is a good sign. Went to meet Rob at dog park and was hyped to see Eric there too. It was super nice out. I’m not remembering much about this session other than Rob and I playing on the propped up bank, but that was later in the session. Early on I took a few tries to get a ride to fakie and watched Rob casually carve it like it was nothing. I couldn’t commit to a noseslide across the tall flatbar that had the kickers up to it. Hucked some random tricks I have no shot at, but it was fun like inward heel tail ha ha. Rob had a bunch of the halfcab bank rides, tossed around shove out and 180 out. I took a long time to get that kickflip and decided to sit after that as the achilles was hurting a little.

(setup 4/10 8.25 null abstract, jessup ultragrip, ace af1 44, spitfire f4 99a classic yellow 52mm, new balance numeric 440v2 wide high black size 12 half 574 insole and currex runpro insole)
(pain level 4/10)