Met Dave after work on a cool, but nice, afternoon right after work at this ol’ bank to curb spot. I got out of my car excited to skate, but the first few pushes were so painful my excitement diminished a little. Dave was struggling so it made me feel alright. Nose stalls to fakie, boardslides were the warm ups. Eventually tech tricks like switch nose stalls. Ha. We were both doing our things. I finally managed a slappy crooks there which is really hard since the curb is over vert and I’m not Max Garson. Dave did his boardslide 270, close to front hurricane, a lot more. I was trying to ollie onto the low step and back 180 into the bank. It was so hard. I would eventually get one. Then I tortured myself by trying a really long line. Kickflip out of the curb cut, ollie onto the step and back 180 into the bank, switch noseslide something. After a few tries to get the kickflip I slammed super hard on the step. It hurt bad. I can tell when my arthritis is bad because I could barely move my arm for awhile it stung so bad. I got up to try it again and slammed just as hard on the kickflip. Somehow it made me laugh hysterically. Falling skateboard can be such a great experience. People need to fall more, it rules. Anyway, while I was laying there laughing a construction worker came over and asked if he could ride my board. Sure. He took a sketchy cruise on the sidewalk and left my board with mud all over it. Thanks dude! While I was trying my line Dave was trying switch nose stall to shove out and landed a couple of them perfectly. I kept trying the line and would eventually technically get it. The kickflip was fine, but the back 180 off the sidewalk was more like a slow fall that turned into a tic tac 90 degree turn. I wanted to shove out of the switch nosestall, but instead I just did the stall. Oh well, as bad as I had been skating it felt good to try so hard.

Tour de bank spots with @fullertrron this afternoon #day111

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Then we went here. Dave had never skated it. We started out just doing kickturns. Rock ‘n roll. Dave smoked me in the rock to fakie race. In fact he did the roll in before I did the rock to fakie. We ollied up a couple times.

Then we went to Stonehenge. Dave had never been there either. Unbelievable. It’s a little harder to skate then it looks since the curbs are angled on the bank, but it still rules. After going through some basics we both worked on nosepicks as I had just been issued the challenge from Josh. I got a couple, but they were bad. It took me awhile to get a good one. Dave of course got a good one and moved on to backside nosepicks. He got a good one of those too then spent the rest of the time working on bag lady which he never got. I never quite got a backside nosepick. I say ‘quite’ because I technically landed it and it will show up in the challenge clip. But it was not a real nosepick. It’s hilarious. Long day of skating!

(setup 8.38 null control room, venture wides, venom 88a bushings, bones stf 51mm v2, es accel slim black/white)