I met Dave at this bank. He forgot his board and didn’t have much time to skate. We played a game of bank SKATE with my board. It was pretty fun. He got me on a rocket crail and I got him on kickflip tricks. He’s so much older than me. Ha. We did quite a few no comply, boneless, shove tricks. It was fun. It was hot. Then Dave left and I posted up the tripod in hopes of capturing me rattling off a bunch of flip tricks. When the kickflip to fakie (that I did first try in the game of SKATE) took 10 tries I knew I was in trouble. The b/s flip took awhile and the back bigflip took even longer. Ugh. After a quick front shove fakie I went for the dream trick hoping to get the hardest trick out of the way. Treflip. I couldn’t do it. Landed on a few. But nope. Ugh. I tried it for probably about an hour in the 90+ degree heat. When it was done I felt like I was going to die. I had run out of water and when I got home was borderline passing out. Lovely. That wasn’t good for my cold.

I worked from home as I was still feeling pretty sick. Took a couple naps. Went to Southern Hills for awhile and started to feel better being out in the sun and getting some exercise. I started off skating pretty bad, skated ok for awhile, then back to bad. The ledges did not grind very well as the heat had evaporated most of the wax and what was left was just liquid on a crusty edge. I tried some lines. One was switch noseslide (the John Brandow way) to forward, treflip, kick back tail on the curb. Got remotely close. Also ollied the 2 stair from the crack and did a front noseslide to forward (so rare). Tried to ollie up onto the bench in the back and back 180 off, but I could not get onto it. Bummed me out. Then tried front 180 on the sidewalk, halfcab flip into the handicap ramp then ollie onto a bench and ollie off past a crack. Couldn’t get the ollie onto the bench. Finally managed solo, but man what a bummer. I guess the one downfall I’ve found so far with the smaller setup is ollie’ing up stuff. Doh. In the small board defense though at one point I tried a switch flip and almost landed it. So close.