Feeling lazy I went into the garage to try some flippers.  After fakie flips took a few try I hucked some weird ones.  Randomly I tried nollie front foot flip.  I can’t really nollie so I’m not sure why I tried, but it did feel somewhat possible.  Then I went into nollie front heel and it felt close.  I got pretty close a few times and fully committed.  Then I had an awkward fall into the mattress in the garage and decided to call it a night and catch up on this journal.  I’m caught up!  Hooray

setup null 8.25 lazer deck, 5.8 venture black icon trucks, bones  bushings (medium big bottom one, hard top one), no washers inside each axle, bones 51mm stf v1 pj wheels, adidas city cup size 11, stock insoles)
(pain level 5/10 maybe sore from the gym)

Went to Square House right after work and a quick meal.  I wasn’t really feeling like skating much and I really wasn’t wanting to skate a crowded park.  But Donnie sent me a photo of no one being there so I went.  It was just Donnie, Sean and Riley.  David joined later, as did Ted.  I had put some old bones wheels in thinking I would like them to flip with.  But straight out of the gates I sucked.  Bailed axle stalls on the ramp, couldn’t 50 the ledge, etc.  Those 3 were skating the parking block on top of the bump to ledge.  Well I guess Sean was mostly skating the ledge, Riley was too.  Donnie was doing some ridiculous switch stuff from the lower qp onto the higher one.  I had a crooks on the ledge I liked, a sketchy kickflip up the euro, a fun kicfklip to fakie on the mellow bank and ended it by taking a lot of tries to back 50 on the qp over the little qp.  Riley had lines for days and could just improvise with tricks like switch heel up the euro.  Sean had a sick line of front nosegrind the ledge, back 50 up the hubba then ollie into the wood bank thing.  Donnie was in beast mode.  It’s inspiring the way he slams and gets up.  Still fun, but man I skated terribly.

(setup null 8.25 lazer deck, 5.8 venture black icon trucks, bones  bushings (medium big bottom one, hard top one), no washers inside each axle, old bones 51mm v1 pj stf, new balance numeric 212 black/white size 11.5, stock insoles)
(pain level 2/10 but still felt disoriented)

After getting hyped on some Vics Market videos at Jack’s I felt like doing some real street skating for once.  Just pull up to an area of town and skate.  I had to bring boards to Fedex so I just went there and skated around.  I was immediately stoked to see the very well lit alley behind the old Whole Foods being totally skateable now.  I played around for awhile warming up then settled on some lines to get going.  I would do a variation of a side rock, then ollie a little square cement chunk and then try to tailslide a little yellow curb.  I had setup a new board, 8.25.  It felt small, but fine.  I had the City Cups going again and they felt tine too.  I took a long time to get a kickflip to fakie, the approach was hard.  I tried to back tail the tiny yellow curb, but that didn’t work.  Pop shove to fakie was fun too.  That area is cool.  Then I rolled around for awhile and ended up at the weird wood bench in the photo.  There is a slight bank up to it.  i did a nose stall to fakie then took a very long time to get a front axle stall.  But it felt good when I did it.  I had tried a few flippers, but didn’t land much.  My board/shoes felt weird for that.  But yeah, super fun night, felt great to really street skate.  I need to do this more.

(setup null 8.25 lazer deck, 5.8 venture black icon trucks, bones  bushings (medium big bottom one, hard top one), no washers inside each axle, spitfire f4 radial blue/yellow swirl 52mm 99a wheels, adidas city cup size 11, stock insoles)
(pain level 2/10)

After a long day with lots of chilling and family time I went into the garage around 9pm after putting an old 8.25″ deck on.  It felt good.  I did a few basics, took awhile to get a treflip, called it a night.  Oh yeah, I mixed up a few shoes to see if they helped and some old City Cups worked out after I tightened them up.

(setup null 8.25 spanbauer deck, 5.8 venture black icon trucks, bones  bushings (medium big bottom one, hard top one), no washers inside each axle, spitfire f4 radial blue/yellow swirl 52mm 99a wheels, adidas city cup size 11, stock insoles)
(pain level 3/10 ankle loosened up a bit)

Around 1pm I went to Broomfield park to meet several others and intended to get to Darin’s at some point.  I didn’t drink a whole lot so I was mostly just tired, but still felt kind of emotionally drained.  The first thing I noticed was Kevin doing a super fast manual on the black box.  He was ripping.  He was skating with Sean and Mike in the black ledge area.  Jake and Matt were there.  This is one of those entries that I am writing way too far after the fact and I remember almost no tricks until I started filming later on.  I know I wasn’t too motivated and it showed.  I also miss the red curb a lot.  After awhile Jack, Carleigh and Nolan showed.  Jack was in kill mode again.  Riley, Donnie and Garrett were there too.  I filmed most people do tricks from the qpotty onto the hubba and back down.  Riley did kickflip to fakie and then switch flip off!  Nolan had a nice 180 up, fakie flip, then kickflip off.  Donnie treflip fakie.  Jack almost manual up fakie flip off.  Sean gap back 50 up.  More tricks went down.  I was freezing cold just standing there.  After that I just tried to do slappy crooks on the lower part of the brown ledge to make up for the missing red curb.  Then we had margs and hung out and watched skate vids.  Fun times.

(setup null 8.5 perception deck, 5.8 venture black icon trucks, doh doh bushings (yellow top, blue bottom) bushings, 2 washers inside each axle, spitfire f4 radial blue/yellow swirl 52mm 99a wheels, new balance numeric 212 black/white size 11.5, stock insoles)
(pain level 3/10)