On a cool day met up with Paul and Rob at dog park. I had put smaller wheels on. I loved them and would go on to have a decent session for me. I had alright pop, okay crooks, first try kickflip onto the c pad, nose manual the curb, very close to kickflip 5-0 the lurb, locked into a couple crooks on the upper tier, close to halfcab crooks. Rob had back 50s, back smith, front board, manuals I think. Paul had his 5-0 moves, said he was pretty tired, talked to Matt more than I did ha. Fun session, only tried a few treflips but wasn’t close.

(setup 7/10 null abstract 8.25, jessup ultragrip, venture redrilled v8 5.6 v-hollows with royal bushings, 51mm spitfire f4 99a classic shape, new balance numeric 440v2 wide black size 11.5 half 574 vulc insoles and currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 3/10)

On a cool day I stopped by the parks after work. Dave was there when I got there, we started at the park. I had made a setup change, basically forged v8 5.6s on an 8.25. I loved it. Early on I had some fun in the top bowl area, then a first try kickflip on the shark fin. Paul and Will showed. Dave had a first t f/s kickflip on the bank and a gorgeous 5-0 over the rainbow. I did a line of f/s kickflip on the bank then kickflip to fakie on the shark fin. Will and Paul had some good ollies over the euro. Will good wallies. I started trying treflips to fakie in the little bank. They were all so close. Then I landed a few! I know they weren’t perfect, but actually landing them and doing more than one felt so great. Paul joined the treflip game and did 8 in a row at one point, then a couple more after. Dave added fakie flip and varial flip to fakie. Then a really nice ollie into the bank.

We went over to the plaza. Will proved us wrong by doing first try front nosegrind on the bench that we said wasn’t lit well enough. He had some nice manuals and nose manuals too. I struggled with front 50s on the lurb, but I think I got a line I was trying of front 50, noseslide to fakie the bench, fakie 50 halfcab out the curb. Dave did a similar line starting with back 50 on the lurb, front nose to fakie, then fakie back 50 halfcab out. He would try more to fakie, but didn’t get one I don’t think. I tried some switch front tails and may have technically met the minimum requirements of one.

(setup 8/10 null abstract 8.25, jessup ultragrip, venture redrilled v8 5.6 v-hollows with royal bushings, 53mm bones v1 stf 103a, new balance numeric 440v2 wide black size 11.5 half 574 vulc insoles and currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 3/10)

On a nice morning I went to Boulder park to meet up with a fun crew. It was Bratcher, Jesse, their friend Gordon and Cass. I had a setup change. 8.3 with V8 Ventures. I liked them. I’m writing this after several days so I’m spacing out what happened a lot. I know pretty early on Cass did a perfect b/s flip over the hip and would almost do some b/s flip fakie 50s on the hump to ledge. Bratcher with the nollie combos on the hump to ledge. Jesse was doing Jesse things. We had some fun grinds around the corner to start things. My trucks felt great on coping. I tried like a million crooks on the bench followed by treflip on the hump and got very close, but no cigar. Was happy to finally do the front 50 over the bench though. Took a bit, but was super fun when I got it. Had some things that I liked such as the little quick line with the halfcab 50 on the tiny qp, noseslides the hump to ledge. Near the end we did some slappies on the outside wallie ledge that were hard, but fun. There’s so much more here, it was a fun session.

(setup 6/10 null smoke valley 8.3, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.8 v8 baseplate titanium hanger royal bushings, 51mm spitfire f4 99a classic shape, new balance numeric 440v2 high black size 12 half 574 vulc insole and currex runpro insole)
(pain level 4/10)