Jake came over to my house at 7:30 and we skated in front of the house for a bit. My legs felt better than expected. We were clearly just in the warm up stages, but we did some tricks. I was most hyped on a fakie bigflip and an ollie that felt like it landed really hard and jolted the arthritis out of my legs. Sounds silly, but it really did feel like that.

Anyways, the plan was to meet Fuzz and Ian at Crisis at 8 then go to the northGLENn park. But it was all wet so we went to yellow curbs instead which ended up being totally awesome. We skated for almost three hours so there is no way I can remember everything. There was a lot of laughing going on and lots of funny falls. Everyone of us had a few good ones. I was rolling off a curb once and straight slammed onto my knee. That takes talent. Jake had a brilliant slam onto a curb. The best part being I couldn’t even tell what he was trying. A crooks? Back 50? Epic. Fuzz was trying a kickflip off a curb and hit eject at the last second resulting in him dive past his board. Ian’s may have not been as funny, but the heelflip manual attempt that rotated to far and slammed him onto the ground was crazy painful looking.

Onto the skating which it seemed everyone was skating at least decent for themselves. Some of the highlights were Ian heelflip manual, heelflip off a curb, straight ripping. Fuzz did fakie flip off a curb first try, a textbook f/s halfcab heel off a curb, manual front shove out and switch front tails. Jake had some mean slappies, manuals, kickflip off a curb and I think some wallrides too. I struggled with kickflips up a curb, but other then that had a lot of fun with slappy crooks, switch slappy front nose, f/s halfcab flip off a curb, kind of a b/s flip off a curb, nose manuals (almost with shove out) and posed lots of kick back tails and manual front shoves out. I was pretty beat and seemed more hesitant than normal to do flip tricks. Maybe it’s the big board setups fault, but probably just exhaustion.

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