Got out of work and it’s still light out.  Awesome!  Doesn’t mean it was warm though.  Met Jason and Nate at the 30th & Iris ledge.  One of my least favorite ledges only because I totally suck at downhill spots.   Nate was doing good back  50s and front 50s before Jason or I even touched the ledge.  As usual it took me about 10 tries just to get on a 2mph front 50.  Pretty early on Jason slammed really hard on a back 50 and bounced his tailbone on the ledge.  Ouch!  After that him and I skated down the hill of the bike path.  I was trying to get some slides in and hit the ledge.  The sidewalk isn’t very smooth so slides destroyed our wheels.  Jason didn’t care as his setup is pretty old.  My wheels are only a few days old though.  I had been trying kickflips into the downhill then two power slides before trying a front 50 on the ledge.  But I didn’t get it until I skipped the first slide and just did a longer slide (with all my weight directly on my front left wheel) and got the front 50.  I was pretty hyped for sure.  Granted the powerslide slowed me down too much and I flatspotted my wheel really bad, but it was still a blast.  Jason took off after this as his back was shot.  Nate was getting tech.  He got front smith, front tail, fakie nosegrind and probably more.  I don’t really like to skate that ledge stand alone very much because it bums me out.  I found a little pile of snow about the height of a curb and a foot long or so and would start lines out by kickflipping over it.  I think I may have done one of my best kickflips ever at one point.  Felt so good.  I got a few runs.  Something like kickflip over the snow, front 50, varial flip.  Kickflip over the snow, front 50 shove, bail.  I almost got one line with a front 5-0 and then 3 flip, but bailed the 3 flip.  Coming backside I did lots of halfcab flips that felt good, some bad crooks and hucked some kick back tails.  It ended up being a fun session although I hurt my calf in my back leg while pushing.  I decided that would be my last session on the floppy Herman 2s as pushing shouldn’t hurt.

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