After way too many phone calls/texts/etc I met Neil and Blake at the little ledge/manny pad spot by his old house. The ledge was covered in snow. Doh. I did a few 180’s and stuff, but that was about it before we went to Wilville to meet Jack and Carleigh. It was t-shirt weather out! Wilville was busy with students which annoyed people like Carleigh and I. Others seemed fine. Neil liked the young scenery. I continued my flatground woes as of late and struggled to have any confidence. Getting used to new insoles is weird after using the same ones for over 5 years. Neil did a bunch of one foots in. Jack manualled up and down at will. The high speed ollie up the bank to nose manual the top was so sick. I’m not remembering a whole lot more from this.

Off to the wonderful research center it was. Jack suggested we wax it like crazy so we did. I slammed super hard on a noseslide right away. Ugh. No one seemed to rip it right away. I will say that Jack ended up slaying it though. So many tricks. Fakie tre up the curb, noseslide nollie heel out, tried back 50 to wallride, kickflip noseslide, f/s flip up the curb, back 50 to nose manual maybe? and probably 100 more things. Carleigh landed more kickflips then I’ve ever seen her land in one day, but managed to be totally pissed off about it. Not sure I’ve ever seen her that upset before. Doh. Blake had a really nice front 50 shove, heelflips, and a bunch more front 50s. Neil did his patented lipslide all quick, had a bunch of kickflips, actually did a noseslide, but did a lot of sitting. I skated alright and did the ol’ line of front 180 up the curb, halfcab flip on flat, crooks. That’s a fun one. Tried some longer lines with kickflip off the curb, 3 flip on flat or something, but never quite got it all. Got a few back 50s. A nollie varial flip. Tried kick back 50 and failed. At the end I was trying this little quick up a curb gap onto the sidewalk, slammed and my board when in the manhole!

Then we went to this wood bank spot that Neil, Blake and I had never skated before. It didn’t take Blake long to rip it though. We didn’t ollie up, just threw down and had one push at the bank. Blake did feeble, axle stall, back smith, maybe more and did a front 50 off the ledge drop. Carleigh got feeble and axle too. Maybe even a rock ‘n roll and some front 180’s off. I got an axle stall, rock ‘n roll and a few boneless to f/s wallride things. One followed by a kickflip which I thought was fun. Neil did some kick turns then retired to the car. The Jack demo was in effect at this spot. Pivot fakie, front rock, front pivot fakie, no comply to tail, back disaster. Most followed by tricks off the drop too. 360 flip, impossble, switch varial heel, switch heel, fakie tre. So good.

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