On a windy sunny day I went to the garage in the late afternoon. I had put Venture V8s on my new 8.25 and man it felt better. After a warmup I started flipping and kickflips took a bit. I wanted to try all the straight 8, but didn’t want to spend a lot of time on it. So I tried 5 tries on the ones I can’t do, but heelflip and especially fakie heelflip took forever. Treflip took me quite a while too but I did land on one and slam in the first couple tries. I rotated in a lot of hucking but still managed to land 10 flippers.

kickflip
Fakie flip
heelflip
fakie heelflip
b/s flip
treflip
halfcab flip
halfcab heelflip
f/s halfcab flip
varial flip

I was happy I was 3/5 on backside flips, got a couple halfcab flips in a row, f/s halfcab flip was really hard with the weird angle I have in my garage (well I guess all tricks are hard in that little space) and ended with 3 varial flops in a row.

(setup 7/10 null 8.25 keyhole 2, null grip, ace 44 af1 hollow spanky, 52mm spitfire f4 99a, new balance numeric 440v2 wide blue size 12 half old 440 insole and gamechanger light insole)
(pain level 2/10 seriously no idea how I felt fine but I did and it’s even weirder because I had a few drinks the night before)

Paul, Eric, Jack B and I rolled to the fun mellow Thornton park where we met Jesse and Gordon. The park was not crowded at any point and the temp was really nice. Paul and Gordon were popping way too quickly, but they are in their 30s so I guess it’s allowed. We skated for a few hours. I did not skate well, but a few things went alright. I had a couple fakie bigflips, one into a tiny bank, lots of crooks on the tall ledge, one very slow front 50 on the tall ledge but I was still happy about it, ended on a nollie tail the mini hubba off the curb followed by a b/s flop over the mini hump. Jack charged it, some noseslides, slappies, boardslides. Eric ripping, front 50 and front 50 180 out the mellow mini hubba, front tails the concrete ledge. Paul front smith over the manny pad, ollied the two stair, 50s everywhere, manuals, had some good slams, ollied up the bank to bank gap. Gordon aka Mr Pop ollied the bank to bank gap, 50d the tall edge with speed, also got a front smith over the manny pad, front tail the bank to curb. Good seeing Jesse he had some noseslides on the tall ledge, ollied the bank to bank gap, some good shoves. I’m missing a ton, we skated a long time, it was pretty fun.

(setup 3/10 null 8.25 keyhole 2, null grip, ace 44 af1 hollow spanky, 52mm spitfire f4 99a, new balance numeric 574 vulc blue 11.5 footprint gamechanger insoles)
(pain level 5/10 some weird foot pain)