I hung out with Jason all day. Hanging with him is amazing and put my minor problems into perspective. After going to the Commission best trick contest then hanging at Crisis with Fuzz for awhile we ended up at my house. We were doing some knee brace research and I came across this. Kinda hyped me up because I hate skating in that huge knee brace I currently have. I have no idea if it’s a good idea, but a knee brace meant for tendonitis seems like a good idea about now and all the reviews are incredible. I ordered one. Jason took off and Liz and the kids had just left for the library to rent some movies for the night. I wanted to skate super bad. It was 72 and sunny so Rampy would be a sin. Flatground hurts too much (I thought) and the yellow curb above just called me in. I started with some slappy noseslides and no comply 270s to tail. They felt fine. Did some stalls, they felt fine. And it just kept going. Before you read the next tricks keep in mind everything was slow, stalled, lunch breaked, sloppy and the funnest things I have ever done on a skateboard. It started with a no comply 270 to tail shove out. Then fakie tail shove out (just running into the curb fakie and shove out), then I started hucking fakie tail 3 shove and got one! Out of the blue I hucked a kick back tail and almost did it first try. No pain in the knee. A few later and the family was arriving home and I said “This is for you guys!” and stomped a clean one. I was on top of the world. India even cheered for me (that’s my daughter for the people out there that think I randomly pretended that an entire country cheered for me) and my grin was ear to ear. I ended up getting a couple tricks I’ve never done before. Kick back 50 shove out (I was laughing hysterically at how easy it felt) and I followed it with a slappy nosestall popped up into crooks. Front tail 3 shove out. Like I said all of these tricks were done horribly but I really don’t care. It felt amazing to be able to do what I did and I went inside feeling incredibly happy. Curbs rule (yes I will be waxing some section soon and sweeping the sand away)!

ps – I had some new shoes. Fallen – Slash’s. Their supposed to change colors while you skate them. Aint that cute (not why I got them but I gotta admit I think it’s neat)