Feeling very sore and not so motivated I attempted to skate some new/rare spots for motivation. Went to the school up on Lehigh and found nothing. All I did was a carve on the little bank. Lots more driving, crowded schools that I avoided .. ended up at Arapahoe Ridge. Got ollie up the 3 curbs, turn around double down manual which was fun. Next thing was ollie onto the longer pad and front 180 off. The drop felt rather large unfortunately. Then tried to just manual the lower section and struggled so bad, kind of got one. More cruising around, ended up at the new area on central, but just wanted to ollie off a weird two stair into a bank. Took a line to do it. Terrible fakie bigflip, nollie shove, ollie a two, front 180 up a 2, ollie the 2 into the bank. Did some more spot lurking, but ended up at home.

(setup 7/10 8.25 pmg (that’s so old it’s been to Germany and back), jessup ultragrip, 5.6 venture v-hollow redrilled to v8, bones stf 103a pj 53mm v1, new balance numeric 440v2 wide half 574 insole and currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 7/10 feet and knees were so sore)

The sun came out and the wet concrete dried quickly. Went to Platte because it normally dries quickly. In fact no part of the south side even had run off. I started at the manny pad. Normally I hate this manny pad due to the cracks, but today I liked it. Warming up was tough. I took some getting used to my setup change and 440s again. Felt good though. Got manual and nose manual pretty quick. May have gotten a line of halfcab flip then nose manual. Started going for nose manual shove and kick back tail. Never got the nose manual shove although was very close. Got a kick back tail which made me happy. Went over to the 3 stair. Ollied up, down and 180 down. The ollie up was not clean though. Then I skated the good flatground area for a while. Didn’t land much. Really struggled with heelflips and could not get one. Was really close to halfcab heel.

(setup 7/10 8.25 pmg (that’s so old it’s been to Germany and back), jessup ultragrip, 5.6 venture v-hollow redrilled to v8, bones stf 103a pj 53mm v1, new balance numeric 440v2 wide half 574 insole and currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 3/10)