After driving down from the mountains and chilling awhile I went to good ol’ Valmont to try my luck with the lipslide shove again. I quickly felt like crap. Total crap. It was like I was learning to skate all over again. I had done a couple of bad 50s and taken awhile to land a kickflip (but got a heelflip first try) before forcing myself to lay into more lipslides. My already cracked deck did not like that. I ended up basically just trying it over and over. It was kind of funny watching the crack spread across the deck a little further with each failed attempt. It became too soggy to even try flip tricks. After awhile I focused it and setup an old Krooked Manderson board that was in my trunk. I went back into lipslides with it, but was so tired at that point that I basically gave up and went home.

(setup null message 8.125 deck/krooked manderson 8.1, venture 5.2 v-hollow lows, 1/16″ riser, thunder bushings, 3 washers inside each wheel, 50mm STF V1, new balance numeric pj 533 steel/gum 11.5)

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