First night I could skate in a few and it’s dumping outside. Doh. It ended up working out though as Ollie, Carleigh and I went to Red Curbs. Red curbs gets puddles when it rains because of the drainage, but it was really bad with the heavy rains. We managed though. I felt really uncoordinated initially. Way more so than normal. Ugh. Standing all day at work is tough on the legs, but once I get going it feels like I can skate forever. Ollie ripped it. Front 180, back 180s off curbs. Halfcab off, front and back boardslides. Some of the frontside boardslides he pulled to fakie or 270’d around. So sick. He was going slow, but still. Carleigh cruised around for awhile before settling in on trying the powerslide across the median. She got it quite a few times in the end. After some cruising around warming up, front, back 50s I told myself I had to do 4 manual tricks over the short manny pad. I ended up getting five. Manny, nose manny, front 180 nose manny, kickflip manny and switch front 180 manny. Rad. Then I tried the powerslide too. It took awhile and going the other way I would try a line of ollie a yellow bar, ollie a puddle, ollie up the curb, kickflip off. Got that a couple times. Ollie had started trying fakie pop shoves off a curb and landed it. Whoa! I got his back with the powerslide finally. I had told Ollie there was no way Carleigh and I could do that trick, but we tried it anyway. Carleigh ended up getting it in about 3 tries. It took me about 20. Ha. It had only taken Ollie about 10 tries. Last part of the session for me was trick up, off the longer manny pad. I got front 180 up then fakie bigflip off. Rad, never done that off anything before. Not even a huge curb. I wanted to do kickflip up then treflip off, but it was too late and I needed to get Ollie home. Fun night.

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