Took a lunch break to skate flat at blue skies with Rob and Dave. I got there first. I did my newish dynamic stretches then started pushing around as Rob and Dave assembled. The warm up wasn’t easy for anyone. I got my first kickflip though, then 5 more in a row. Tried the Iron Man a few times, but didn’t get heelflips at that point. After awhile Rob put Dave’s putter in the middle of the rink upright to do tricks over which made things a little more fun. Dave did a switch ollie over it pretty quickly. It’s crazy how casually he can do that. Rob was starting to link long lines together with kickflips, bs flips, back 180s over the board, halfcab over the board, fakie bigpins and a 360 shove. At one point he had a really long run with like 8 tricks. So nuts. There was a period where things were working very well for me. Kickflips and heelflips felt so good. Got a couple kickflips over the board which felt awesome. Couldn’t get the treflip after for a line though. Was also doing a randon flip trick then front 180 over the board, fakie flip and trying fakie treflip. Got close, but never got both feet on the fakie tre. Dave worked for a nollie front 180 over the board. Dave and Rob tried for kickflips over it. Rob might have got one with a scratch violation. I hucked a few nollie back heels. That trick seems so possible. I also got a first try 360 shove.

Then we played a game of SKATE. It went pretty well for me even though Rob was the king of second try on double or nothing. Ha it was funny. I think it was fakie flip, heelflip and varial flip he got 2nd try. His luck ran out eventually though and after a couple double or nothings he went out. I had landed a few flippers in a row. Dave was close to all of them too. Fun flatground friday. It was tough going back to work. Can’t believe how good my shoes felt and the bigger board.

We ended on 360 shoves. It took me several tries to get one this time. Dave was close and added some switch flip attempts. Hyped on 360 shoves though.

(setup 8.38 null atomic cowboy deck, venture 5.8 black icon trucks, 51mm bones stf v1, 3 washers on the outside of each axle, bones medium bushings, es accel slim all black size 11.5, footprints gamechanger lite insoles)

Put on my bigger deck again and headed over to the school with some new shoes too. Es Accel Slim. Messed around with some back 50s and front 50s. Tried some slow front 50 kickflip out. Ollie was trying the hurricane really quick and I wanted to film it. He got close for awhile then the slam and that was basically it for him. I was trying flippers in between his attempts. Then Ollie left so I went to the street and skated flat for a bit. It didn’t go well. I struggled with halfcab flips which really made me mad. It didn’t help that huge gusts of wind would ruin things for awhile. Then it would be calm and I would try random stuff. I basically didn’t land anything noteworthy and it made me doubt my shoes and larger board.

(setup 8.38 null atomic cowboy deck, venture 5.8 black icon trucks, 51mm bones stf v1, 3 washers on the outside of each axle, bones medium bushings, es accel slim all black size 11.5, footprints gamechanger lite insoles)