Feeling tired and slightly hungover from date night with Liz (I have zero tolerance anymore) I headed to campus on another hot day. I was really hating my setup the day before and how stiff the trucks were so I took off the lower washer. This gave it some wiggle and I liked it. I started off at the little downhill manny pad. Not sure if I even did a clean one or not, but I definitely did on the way back to my car later in the day. I did ollie off the ledge in the background before the scooter was there. I had fun doing 180 variations over a manhole.

Then I skated this amazing ledge. Ha. I tried a line of halfcab flip, back 50, ollie the next 3 stair. The back 50 kept sticking for me. Doh. I started going f/s halfcab flips instead. I would eventually get the line, but the 3 stair ollie was horrible. So I switched the heelflip as the first trick and then did it good enough to move on. I checked out a couple spots, but they had cars or people in the way. Actually, the brick area near the ledge I was just at would have been good, but these new Sptifires, which are supposed to be the 99a, seem hard as hell and the cracks were really annoying.

I ended up here for my most frustrating part of the day. Front tail this ledge, curve around a picnic table, ollie onto the ledge, stop, turn around and kickflip off. I never got the ollie up. The shortness of this board was really bumming me out on the front tails and ollies. The ledge wouldn’t have slid really anyway, but I feel like I posted up on some front tails good at least. I managed to kickflip off at least.

Then I went here which was pretty crowded with college students at times. I tried a line of ollie up, varial flip on the top, front shove off for awhile. the ollies up felt alright, but varial flips were being elusive and pissing me off. I would managed to get the line though and it felt awesome. Then I went home.

(setup 8.1 null venture lows without lower washer 51mm spitfire f4 nb# pj stratford 533 white/gum)

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