Out somewhat early on a winter Saturday because it was supposed to get windy. The crew was Bratcher, Gordon, Jesse, Tim, Eric and some old man named Glen. I wore vulcs which had a lot less pain, but less confidence with flippers. I would go on to have a decent session with the exception of flippers. Gordon was popping right away, doing lines similar to Paul and Sean. Jack and Jesse warmed up mostly with non-pop tricks. Eric’s front tail on the curb that didn’t lock in was actually super awesome. As were his fast mannies. Jesse and Gordon back 180’d over the grate. Oh, for a while we had a flat bar on the grate so when you ollied it was kind of like you popped over a rail. Felt pretty cool. I only did it once. Jesse made it look really easy. I did a lot of popping, most of which was slow and not confident, but oh well. Had a line of front 180 a tiny snow pile, switch front board jib the last inch of the tiny flat bar, fakie flip on flat. Almost got front 50 the main bench then kickflip 50 the lurb. Got a nose manual, although the one in the edit is clearly not a make. Tried for a bit to finally get even the tiniest front 50 above the pad and managed one. It felt pretty awesome. Eric basically did it too. Had a couple sloppy back 50 shoves. We skated almost 3 hours. I’m missing a lot. Everyone seemed to skate decent. Still wish dog park would have a better ledge.

(setup 7/10 null 20 years 8.5/14.25, null grip, thunder hollow light 149 bones medium bushings, 52mm spitfire f4 99a orange/black swirl, new balance numeric 547 vulc half 272 insole and currex runpro insole)
(pain level 4/10)

Out in the garage after work on a Friday. Didn’t feel too good, warmed up a bit, got a kickflip then started hucking nollie flips. Hucked 25 of them, none were very close. I hucked more tricks I haven’t done before. Switch f/s flip (not very close), switch front heel (not remotely close), nollie varial heel (not very close), switch tre (not remotely close). Tried 5 heelflips nope, 5 treflips nope. Got fakie flip first try, a bit for b/s flip and ended on varial flip.

(setup 7/10 null 20 years 8.5/14.25, null grip, thunder hollow light 149 bones medium bushings, 52mm spitfire f4 99a orange/black swirl, new balance numeric 440v2 wide brown half 574 vulc insole and currex runpro insole)
(pain level 8/10 new 440s suck)

Another cold winter night, went to the open session at square state. I was kind of late. Joe and Garrett were already there as were several others. And it would get more and more crowded. I hid in the tiny section almost the whole night. And I basically tried kickflip 50s the entire time and only got close to landing it a couple times. I did get a few hurricanes on the little qp and several blunt to axle stalls which are rare for me. At the end of the session I kickflipped up the euro and did a crook on the bump to ledge. I had seen Garrett do his smooth ripping, Joe hardflipped the sk8 mafia board up the euro. Was going seeing Denver ripper Daryl. Darin and Justin were there. Will showed and did some tails on the bank to curb. All in all a weird session. I wish I didn’t get overwhelmed by crowds so easily.

(setup 7/10 null 20 years 8.5/14.25, null grip, thunder hollow light 149 bones medium bushings, 52mm spitfire f4 99a orange/black swirl, new balance numeric 440v2 wide brown half 574 vulc insole and currex runpro insole)
(pain level 7/10)