Been feeling my lack of tranny/park skills lately and want to skate parks a bit more. Not a lot, just learn to flow through them a little better. So I went to Lafayette after work on a cold evening (mid 30s). Hardly anyone was at the park. I totally just dorked around for awhile. I didn’t realize how bad I flat spotted my wheel yesterday, but it was really bad. Combine that with small ass wheels and skating the bowls was way harder then it should be. Like almost impossible to maintain speed. I like the flow bowl there. I got a few back 50s in different places on it. On the black ledge I did quite a few tricks. I love that thing. It’s too bad you can only skate it backside. Granite is really fun to grind. Front 50 front 180 out, front 50 to front lip, front 50 to front board, couldn’t get front 50 back 180 out or front 50 to manual to the bank. I did a lot of just dorking around doing some tiny ollies, trying to flow over hips and stuff. My legs were super sore. My quads in particular. I think it’s mostly from playing basketball with Ollie in worn down vulc skate shoes. Ugh. I tried a few 3 flips and didn’t come close at all. I tried a line of rollin on a little qp then b/s kickflip on the bank under the mountains then back 50 on the super tight vert qp. Never got the last trick. Gotta set up some new wheels. I like that park. I like it even more that the granite is worn in and grinds all raw now.

After a busy morning of grocery shopping, basketball with Ollie, lunch with my mom and more I met up wtih Neil, Brandon, Alec, Jake, Brett, Dave and eventually Carleigh. We started out at the slappy curb under Meta. It was fun, but lots of bikers flying by. I managed slappy crooks, slappy back feeble and slappy front feebles real quick to remind me why I like that spot so much. Everyone else was getting their slappy on too. And some ollies on the bench to bikebath gap. Dave joined us. Then we ollied the 4 stair gap thing nearby. Moved down into campus and found a huge posse of dudes at the gray bench. Chilled for a minute, Blaine showed me some golden Connor footage. Josh was there happy. We escaped the rippers and hit some jersey barriers for awhile. Jake and I lined some wallrides out with ollies over a little pile of snow. My first attempt was an awkward snow wallie. Funny. Neil wasn’t into that spot. We kind of just did whatever for a bit. We ended up at the multiple ledge spot where we posted up for quite awhile. My ankle was feeling mostly decent, but I was avoiding flip tricks. Dave had some sick slappy noseslides. Jake almost got front tailslides. Alec and Brandon front 50d 3 ledges in a row (their goofy). Neil had some good front lips. I got a front 50 front board pop out and almost a line of crooks the tall ledge then kick back 50 the small ledge. Brett broke a brand new board doing a kickflip off the tallest ledge. Carleigh showed up and did noseslide first t. Then we moved on. We ended up at the manny pad parking lot. I tried a new line of manual then wallie into a bank and got it once, but ran into the next curb. Dave and Jake almost got it too. Dave got a sick fakie shove fakie nose manual. Jake and Dave left. Carleigh was doing lots of flatground kickflips. I tried to ollie up onto the red ledge then off and wallie up into grind on the sidewalk opening. Came close. Carleigh didn’t think she could ollie up the red ledge, but ended up doing it really good before we moved to the nearby building to laugh at me not being able to ollie the curb to drop gap. That was pretty much the session. I should take photos of more spots. It was pretty fun. My legs are too sore from playing basketball with Ollie though. Doh.