Went to the research ledge not feeling all that motivated and pretty sore. I rolled down the hill a few times, started with 180s, eventually got to kickflips. Got a boardslide first try so that kind of cheered me up. I was skating slow, had some long lines though with basic flippers. Something like b/s flip, halfcab flip, heelflip, crooks. I got crooks the first try and it felt really good. I was kind of nervous about how the Thunder trucks would crooks, but they were good. I tried back 50s for awhile, got a bad one. Never got front 50. I was feeling really sore. I wanted to stop skating, but then decided to just do the things that make me feel happy for awhile. So coming downhill I just did Cali grind, crooks, cali grind, pose a nollie back heel. Coming uphill I tried front crooks then nollie flip. I have never front crooked that ledge. I was not quite getting into them, but managed a few quick little jibs. I guess it’s progress though. I got quite a few crooks and they did cheer me up as I thought they would.

Then I went to the training wheels bank to try for nollie flips. Never got too close. Never landed a 360 flip on the way back. It didn’t bum me out too much since I had fun earlier.

(setup 8.25 null abstract 5 deck, thunder 147 lights stock bushings, 3 washers on inside of axles, 50mm bones stf v1, New Balance Numeric PJ Stratford 533 burgandy/gum)

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