After a terrible night of sleep I met up with Scotty, Collin, Dan, Donnie and Gordon. It was sunny and warm and would get quite hot again. Dan and I warmed up with a no comply game of SKATE in which he pink slipped me. Last trick being a nollie no comply which was so cool. I need to learn that one. We played nollie tre, none of us getting it. Collin shredded the whole time. The boardslide shoves every try were crazy. I skated okay, ollied the most I have in a while and it didn’t seem to hurt my groin. I rode the bigger board, it was okay. Tricks I liked were nosegrind 180 on the curb, crooks above the pad, and well maybe that is it. Scott ollied onto the pad. Collin noseslide to fakie nose manual wow. Dan ollie’s the picnic table off the kicker were so good.

(setup 6/10 8.5/14.25 null abstract 43, pepper g5, thunder hollow lite 149, 53mm snot franky, vans half cab wafflecup grey size 12 remind cush insoles )
(pain level 5/10)

On a cool morning that would get warm very quickly Jack picked me up and we met Jake and Cass at Parker skatepark. Jack had never been there before. It is such a fun park. Everyone seemed to cruise around with their own warm ups. My groin was hurting after the drive, but seemed okay while skating. I started with 8.25/14 and thunders and liked it for a while. Came close to switch flip initially. But I couldn’t treflip when Jake and I were trying them. Had some good feeling kickflips on the bank, some noseslides to fakie the bank to ledge, slow front 50 the ledge. We all struggled with crooks on the ledge. Jack’s nollie back lip was sick. Cass had some really good front noseslides before breaking his board. He also did kickflip out of the kicker then back 180 off the tall ledge. Jake, Cass and I noseslid the tall ledge. Jack boardslide off the drop was sick. I took forever to get a switch noseslide on the bank to ledge. Cass front noseslide was so sick. There was a lot more. It was a fun session. I avoided a lot of ollies, but it was still fun. Hucking the little board was fun until it wasn’t fun at all. I had switched to 8.5/14.25 thunder hollows and enjoyed riding it more, but didn’t really try so many ticks.

(setups 8.25/14 thunder and 8.5/14.25 thunder hollow. Neither perfect. vans wafflecup half cabs size 12 grey remind cush impact insole)
(pain level 6/10)

Went to dog park after work on an incredibly nice cool grey afternoon. Will was there, but on a work call. Nick was there. I felt okay on my skateboard. I cruised around mostly avoiding pop for a while. Would do some front 50s on the curb, crooks on things, noseslides, sw front noses. Got one questionable sw crook. Nick had some good crooks and fakie nosegrinds. Will and I messed around with sw bs flips. He of course landed one, I was nowhere near landing one. Near the end I did get some groin pain on a little boardslide so I stopped skating, but overall I felt okay.

(setup 2/10 8.25 null abstract 43, pepper g5, venture 5.6 v8 hollow, bones x99 v1, vans half cab wafflecup grey size 12 remind impact cush insoles)
(pain level 4/10)

Short lunch break to Blue Skies. After my previous session my groin hurt pretty bad. I blame the Foy cups. Tried to skate in Splays, but they lack any structure and I just can’t do it. Went to the Vans wafflecups and they felt better. I skated horribly. Extra horribly. Felt like a total beginner skating so slow, so cautious. Took like 15 tries to get a kickflip. At no point did anything good until the very end with a second try fakie bigflip and I was somewhat happy briefly so I left.

(setup 4/10 8.25 null abstract 43, pepper g5, venture 5.6 v8 hollow, bones x99 v1, vans half cab wafflecup grey size 12 remind impact cush insoles)
(pain level 5/10)

After being stuck working most of the day I thought my groin was up for some actual skateboarding. I really wanted to do a line at this spot in the video. Kickflip, noseslide or crooks, then something. I thought I could go around and maybe do a flyout on the bank to end it, but the ground is too rough. So I settled for moving a parking block to sprack over. My warm up was whatever first, just kind of cruising. My first noseslide felt good and one to fakie. Ollies on flat didn’t feel great. Went for the kickflip and could tell it wasn’t the best thing for me. But I couldn’t stop until I got it. I would like to do it better/slightly different sometime and actually film it. I tried a crook and it hurt my groin so I moved on. Went to the bank with the pipes in it. Did some basic ledge tricks and some kickturns on the bank that is way scarier than it used to be. I thought I was okay until I woke up the next day and appear to have messed up the groin yet again. Lovely.

(setup 7/10 8.25 null abstract 43, pepper g5, venture 5.6 v8 hollow, bones x99 v1, new balance 306c grey size 12 gamechanger insoles)
(pain level 5/10)

On a Saturday in which I was still avoiding ollies I drove off to explore and maybe skate a little. First spot was the school on Mapleton and I found nothing. Then I went to the long ride on grind over the stairs, but it had so much gravel around it. I went around that area and didn’t find much other than a pretty good manny pad. Next to Columbine elem. Didn’t do anything there other than huck some sw bs flips off a speed bump that were not close at all. More driving ended up at Bear Creek. Made myself roll down the stairs and do a couple of drop down manuals. Saw that someone fixed up the ledge in the back so that is awesome. I just did a sw fs noseslide on it. Then I made myself try 10 sw bs flips on flat and was not even remotely close.

(setup 5/10 8.25 null abstract 43, pepper g5, venture 5.6 v8 hollow, bones x99 v1, new balance 306c grey size 12 gamechanger insoles)
(pain level 6/10)

Still dealing with groin strain, but needing to go skate on a nice night I went to WF qp. I skated about an hour and never ollied. Tricks didn’t come that easy. And it was weird one homeless dude was nice and left when I got there, but then he came back. He was encouraging, but I felt bad disrupting his sleep. Anyway, everything took several tries. Well, not the 50s. I had done some 50 reverts and some 5-0s and thought I should actually do a 5-0 to fakie. I still did the cheater version, but it made me happy. The frontside version took a while again, but I couldn’t get it with a grind. Felt good to skate and I don’t think I caused any damage.

(setup 7/10 8.25 null abstract 43, pepper g5, venture 5.6 v8 hollow, bones x99 v1, vans half cab wafflecup grey size 12 remind impact cush insoles)
(pain level 5/10 didn’t do anything to risk the groin, but was kinda crazy how much pain I was in just skating this little qp)

Stopped at dog park on the way in for another short / no ollie session. Chris was there ripping the c ledge. I did some slappies, low boardslides, no pop shoves. Switch tricks didn’t hurt somehow. I did a couple of sw crook jibs on the lurb. Hucked a few sw bs flips which also didn’t hurt and a couple were even kind of close. I did one fakie 50 on the curb and even just that hurt the groin. Doh. I cannot skate frontside anymore. Had some sw fs noseslides that were fun. Felt good being out in the sun again.

(setup 7/10 8.25 null abstract 43, pepper g5, venture 5.6 v8 hollow, bones x99 v1, new balance 306c grey size 12 gamechanger insoles)
(pain level 6/10)

Very quick stop on the way into work. Wanted to skate a little because I was losing my mind after 5 days no skating. So I went with the intention of a very short roll in which I didn’t ollie. It was still fun. There was a guy learning axle stalls on the good new qp so I couldn’t really skate that. Skated the little tiny qp area and did my usual little line. There was a guy there in Xero’s too. Anyway, didn’t do much but it felt great to be on a board.

(setup 8.25 venture v8s halfcabs)
(pain level 6/10)

After a work function at Avery (in which I didn’t drink) I ended up at Frederick park again to meet Dave. There were actually some youth there and they were having fun. I had setup changes and felt off, very off the entire time. I think I took 12-15 tries to land a kickflip. I had mostly stuck with 8.3 and Indys and hated it. I had tried it because I thought I would have more pop as I have previously. But nope, had none and it just felt heavy, big and dumb. Like me. I’m writing this several days later and have very little recollection of the session. Dave did a sick no comply shove noseslide on the hip. Hard to describe, but he did it really good. I had gotten remotely close to a f/s halfcab heel on the hump. I intended to start with a kickflip to fakie, but I was like 1-15 on them so went to pop shove and was also like 1-10. UGH. Dave did some other stuff that was really good. I think I saw a manual on the pad, fakie shoves on the steeper bank, kickflips on the hump. I had started to get really bad groin pain so I stopped skating. I may stop for a while, it keeps lingering and it seems more depressing to skate so badly than it does to not skate.

(setups whack 8.3/indy 149 .. new half cab wafflecups)
(pain level 8/10)