On a cold night I stared at the combo for Square State through my phone magnifier and still couldn’t get it right. Man my close vision is gone. We eventually got in and a solid crew accumulated and skated for a few hours. Bratcher, Dave, Cass, Jesse and me. It’s nice warming up without the youth because we can just dork around in the middle at a slow speed. Hard to remember what others were doing to warm up. I was happy to get a couple of manuals on the little pad, even a nose manual. Crooks on the upper part never worked though. Other things I remember early on. Jesse pop shove and varial flip up the euro, slappy noseslide the upper part of the ledge. He would go on to eventually ollie over the table top. Cass was skating my older setup (that I am not at all tempted by I swear) and had some switch and first ever nollie front 50 on the curb, back 180 up the euro, front nose the upper part of the ledge. At some point Bratcher started filming the little downhill qp session. jack was doing alley oop grinds and cool ollies/180s out of it. Dave fakie crooked the whole thing, front 5-0’d it, back 50 up it after back 50 the qp with speed. I did a alley oop fakie frontside grind that took too long. Oh yeah I had back 50’d it too then came back and ollied up the 3 stair off a kicker which Cass had done 2nd try. Dave had all kinds of amazing lines going. Kickflips up the euro, boardslides the big qp, front 50 the bump to ledge, switch ollie up the euro, sw 180 up it, ollie the pyramid, etc. I don’t even know, it was endless, he was shredding. I had done some kickflips on the bank under the curb, a very bad slow treflip, I guess some stuff that was okay for me. Not the best session, not the worst. At the end a session on the curb ensued. Jack got back 5-0s, shove 50, he looked good. I got nollie tail 270 shove and nosegrind 180. Couldn’t get a kick 50 to save my life. Dave had a couple really good back tails, switch crooks, quick up to 50 the upper part. Hit his knee on a ledge as he was trying to manual across the stairs from bank to bank. This is mostly what I remember, it was a fun session.

(setup 3/10 null keyhole2 8.3, jessup ultragrip, slappy 8.5 low profile, spitfire f4 99a orange/black swirl classic shape, new balance numeric 440v2 wide navy size 12, half 574 vulc insole and currex runpro)
(pain level 4/10)

Left my house after breakfast thinking it was in the mid 30s for some reason, but it was actually in the lower 20s. I started at the old meet up curb and did a couple slappy crooks which felt good. Then I went down to the flagstone ledge and started pretty well there too. Flatground started okay as did ledge tricks until I got to the dreaded front 50. I think I got heelflip first try then could not do another to save my life. Backside I got pretty far into my short list of tricks. Frontside I randomly tried some regular front noseslides which I technically landed, but Jason or Cass would not be proud. Front 50s I really really tried and could not even get into it. It was so frustrating. Even after some hopefully good karma when calling out a homeless guy attempting to steal a bike. Somehow I allowed myself to move on. Ended up at the business building. Had some fun boardslides on the long curb after shoves. Then randomly tried to front 50 the downhill ledge which I had never 50’d before because of the weird downhill approach. Only this time time I managed to front 50 it a few times. Makes zero sense. Granted they were very slow, oh well. I couldn’t noseslide the taller ledge after though. Some cops had parked nearby so I moved on. Ended up at Baker ledge which had a car next to the manny pad, but the ledge was clear. I was tired and just wanted to do 5 ledge tricks and go home. But somehow my legs worked and I skated it better than expected. I got noseslide, noseslide to fakie, switch front nose, halfcab nose, front nose to fakie, front board flop out, super slow front 50, super slow accidental front 5-0, switch noseslide, switch nose to fakie. Had tried a bunch of nollie flips, which weren’t close. Kind of a weird session, some real lows, some okay highs. I guess all of which should be considered a win considering it was 23 degrees.

(setup 3/10 null keyhole2 8.3, jessup ultragrip, slappy 8.5 low profile, spitfire f4 99a orange/black swirl classic shape, new balance numeric 440v2 wide navy size 12, half 574 vulc insole and currex runpro)
(pain level 4/10)