Wanting to be lazy on a cold breezy night I went out to the garage for about an hour. I skated my 8.25 slace board. I had gone out with the intention of trying front bigs, but instead after I did a few basic flippers I settled on varial heels. And kInd of got one. I was really surprised when I landed on it, felt cool. I hucked some other flippers too. Nollie b/s flip and switch b/s flip which were not close. Got one bad 270 flip. Happy I skated.

(setup 6/10 8.25 null keyhole 2, null grip, slace 8.25, spitfire f4 99a orange/black swirl classic shape, new balance numeric 440v2 wide size 12 navy, half 574 vulc insole and currex runpro insole)
(pain level 4/10)

On an incredibly nice Friday I took the afternoon off work and met Will and Darin at Broomfield. I had some solid struggles at this session, only things I can remember liking were doing several heelflips on flat, actually 5 in a row at one point. they were supposed to be setups for treflips though, which I never even got close to. Will, Darin and Spencer did them well though. Will went in on kick back tails on the black ledge. He got into some, but never landed it. I really stunk it up, couldn’t really crook which was so frustrating, got one sketch front 50 shove, a halfcab noseslide that took forever. Darin rattled off his qp moves. I managed one back 50 on the blue lurb. Will was having no problems, same with Darin. It was cool seeing Spencer there, he was ripping and did 180s to fakie nose manuals on the crazy euro. Yes, both frontside and backside. I had one fakie bigflip I liked. We skated quite a long time, I really sore at the end.

(setup 5/10 null flaherty 8.3, jessup ultra, indy 149 forged hollow ace bushing, 51mm spitfire f4 99a classic, new balance numeric 440v2 wide navy size 12, half 574 vulc insole and currex runpro insole)
(pain level 5/10)

On the way to work I stopped by dog park for about 20 minutes on a different setup and new shoes. Oh and it was incredibly windy, unskateable. I really just wanted to do a noseslide and crooks. I had 8.3 with forged redrilled v8 ventures and it seemed okay. Well, it noseslid really well and crooked even better. But when it came to front 50, not so good.

(setup 6/10 null flaherty 8.3, jessup ultra, venture 5.8 titanium redrilled to v8 with bones bushings, 52mm spitfire f4 99a classic orange/black, new balance numeric 440v2 wide navy size 12, half 574 vulc insole and currex runpro insole)
(pain level 3/10)

Changed out the Slaces for Thunder 148 team hollows. Liked it more. Skated better. Got a 3rd try treflip. Battled some heelflips and got a few. Hucked some other stuff, but didn’t put much down. B/s flip and halfcab flip were fun.

(setup 7/10 8.3 null flaherty, jessup ultragrip, thunder team hollow 148s with ace bushings, 51mm spitfire f4 99a classic 3 washers inside axle, new balance numeric 440v2 wide brown size 12 half 574 vulc insole and currex runpro insole)
(pain level 3/10)

Went out to the garage on a new setup and hated it, skated like garbage. I had never done 8.3 with Slace and I probably never will again. It felt off as soon as I set it down. Took a while to get a kickflip. I think I was able to get a heelflip and then a treflip too.

(setup 1/10 8.3 null flaherty, jessup ultragrip, ace baseplate slappy 8.5 hanger, spitfire 51mm 99a classic shape f4, emerica og-1 b/w size 12 footprints gamechangers)
(pain level 3/10)

After my first three day break from skateboarding in a long time I went to Square State on a snowy night. It was a silver session, but I didn’t really know what to expect and it turns out it was super mellow with only a few people there. It was awesome. It was Will, Darin, Tom, Tom, Clayton, Chris, Jason. Will and I started a little on the tiny section, then skated with Jason Born (for real his name) on the main section. Jason was going for 5-0 kickflip out, front tail shove back to tail, treflip 50. I just did some noseslides and crooks, then went in on front shove up the euro which I don’t think I had done there before. They felt great and it was cool to impromptu get another one off the kicker after. Will had back 5-0. I tried some kickflips into grinds, but was not close. I took too long to get a little line of slappy crooks the bank to curb then come back and kickflip on the bank. Near the end Will was getting into kick back tail so I filmed him. And between tries I would do slow flip tricks on the spongy masonite. But I managed kickflip, heelflip, b/s flip and treflip. Will did the kick back tail so good. Serious hammer. What a great session. Oh yeah, I had changed back to my 8.5 with thunders and liked it.

(setup 8/10 8.5/14.25 null 20 year, null grip, thunder 149 hollow lite royal bushings, spitfire f4 99a 51mm classic, new balance numeric 440v2 wide brown size 12 half 574 insole and currex runpro insole)
(pain level 5/10)

On a nice Friday afternoon I got out to dog park later than I had hoped, but in time to see Will before he left. I don’t really remember what he was doing but I think it was nose manual then back tail. He had to leave. I skated for a while, there was a good crew of people. I skated pretty well, but it’s been a couple of days so it’s a blur. I had put ace 44s on my 8.3, mostly liked it. Did front 50 on the bench, crooks, back 50s on the curb, managed to do a manual, I think a few of the ultra basic flippers. Dave showed much later, I was pretty beat but skated for an hour before my calf acted up. I did a fun little line of slappy crook the front shove off the side off the bump to rail. Dave was doing ride on grinds to boardslide on the green curb, lines all the way into the corner which I wasn’t seeing. Ollie nosebonks on the bank to curb. I did a line switch slappy crooks to regs, slappy crooks, ollie the kinked rail and when I landed pain shot through my calf. That pretty much ended my session. Dave was ripping way more than I have documented.

(5/10 setup 8.3 null keyhole, jessup ultragrip, ace 44 ksl af1 hollow, spitfire f4 99a classic shape 52mm orange/black, nike sb sad dunk size 12 half 574 vulc insole and currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 4/10 until the calf)

Went to blue skies on a lunch break from work. It was windy. I had just done a 30 minute presentation in front of like 30 people and felt very relieved. I had put Thunders on. Hated it. Had no juice anyway. Did a few boardslides, switch nose jibs, ollies to fakie, kickflips and was going to leave but tried to make myself do at least one thing that was somewhat harder. And it’s kind of funny because I forget what it was, I just know it was a line with a slow halfcab noseslide in it.

(setup 1/10 null 8.3 keyhole, jessup ultra grip, thunder 148 hl ace bushings, spitfire f4 99a classic orange/black, nike sb sad dunks size 12 with half 574 vulc insole and currex runpro insole)
(pain level 6/10)

Went into the garage late in the evening feeling bummed on being so tired from work, but angry enough I wanted to skate a little. I warmed up with some silly fakie front 3 shove attempts after watching Lamont in CFS 2. Then a few kickflips that felt bad, a bs flip in a couple tries, a bad treflip in 12 tries, couldn’t get a halfcab heel in 20 tries. Called it a night. Oh I guess this counts as a setup change as it’s the slightest bit larger setup.

(setup 4/10 null 8.3 keyhole, jessup ultra grip, slappy lights 8.5 indy 92 bushings, spitfire f4 99a classic orange/black, new balance numeric 440v2 wide brown size 12 half 574 vulc insole and currex runpro insole)
(pain level 3/10)

On a cold snowy day I went out to the garage in the early afternoon with yet another setup change. Wore cupsoles for a change up. Had a blast. Did typical warm up tricks for a bit. Got to kickflip and bailed one then got 5 in a row. Switch flips were not very close. Fakie flip yes. Quite a few nollie flip attempts, a couple were close. Got a couple good feeling b/s flip and halfcab flips. Took a bit to get a couple treflips. Had a great feeling heelflip. Went in hard on nollie tres, a few were really close. It’s just so hard in the little garage and going that slow. Next up battled front heel which technically I may have landed, but not really. Some were close to feeling good. Took too long to get fakie front heel because of the low speed and terrible setup. At that point I wanted to land a copule more tricks so I did varial flip and fakie bigflip. Then I hucked some switch f/s flip and nollie varial heels. Neither were close, but both felt possible if the stars somehow aligned just right.

(setup 8/10 null 8.25 keyhole, null grip, slappy lights 8.25, spitfire f4 99a classic orange/black, new balance numeric 440v2 wide brown size 12 half 574 vulc insole and currex runpro insole)
(pain level 4/10 felt good for a while, but pretty sore near the end)