Feeling run down for some reason all day I went to Red Hawk to meet Nate and Rob. I got there first. I started with my smaller setup. I didn’t think I’d really be able to skate, but after several minutes of no ollie noseslides I got crooks and front 50 first try. I came somewhat close to crooks shove as well. It went downhill for me after that though as my knee pain became too much to handle. At one point my left knee (which has felt tine lately) had a sharp pain that scared me. I remembered I had some FP Gamechangers in the car so I put them on and I felt slightly better. I just skated very slow and tried switch front noseslide shove which felt close a couple of times.. I tried my bigger board and back to the smaller one, but it didn’t matter. Rob shredded. Nollie front lip and switch boardslide shove. Nate did 50s easy to get warmed up, front tail, front lip then went after the front noseblunt. He also did some manuals on the rocks, nose manuals, nollie 180 nose manuals, switch inward heels, switch flips, etc. He got really close to some noseblunts. Matt showed and did a few easy 50s before the cops came and gave us a peaceful boot. We went to Erie park that had a bunch of bikers, scooters and kooks. Well, a few other skaters too that were ripping and having fun. Matt and Nate killed the tall ledge. Those tricks are nuts. I just sat and watched. Rob had done a few laps cruising around and smartly bounced. I don’t like how much pain I was in. I think I know will give up on skating without orthotic insoles.

(setup 8.25″ null spanbauer deck, venture 5.8 wides, venom 90a bushings, bones stf 52mm v5 wheels, 3 washers on the outside of each axle, nbnumeric pj 533s black/gum 12 with thin lakai insoles)

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