On an absolutely gorgeous afternoon I managed to get out of work. I thought we’d be doing flatground friday, but the rink had way too much snow/water in it. At least the skatepark was mostly clear with the exception of the big bank being totally covered in snow. I was still feeling that winter depression pretty hard and started off very slowly. I had put on some bigger wheels from the garage. They aren’t “big” by most peoples standards, but they are wide 52s. Anyway, they felt fine, maybe a little big at times. Around the time Dave showed I was busy trying a no push line of boardslide the flat bar, kickflip on flat, front 50 the tiny ledge. That ledge scares me so much. It took quite a few tries before I got the slowest 50 ever. The whole point of the no push line was so that I could be going that slow by the 3rd trick. Ha. Dave was on front 50s pretty quick. He got front 180 out too and had some long ones that went up the escalator. He had a long line at one point with a boardslide on the dragon rail, front board to fakie the flat bar, cab on flat, halfcab noseslide the ledge. So good. I had a couple whatever noseslides, crook jibs on the ledge. Near the end both Dave and I tried the lines with the bank trick then flatground trick. Dave pulled out the fakie 3 shove like first try. My fakie tre took quite awhile, but when I rolled away it put me in such a great mood. It totally lifted me out of the funk. I was so late for work. Dave did the halfcab flip in a couple tries and we were out. That fakie tre made me happy.

(setup 8.25 null lazer deck, venture ftc 5.8s v-lights, venom 91a bushings, no washers inside the axles, 52mm bones sft v5 wheels, lakai sheffield grey size 12, stock insoles)
(pain level 4/10)

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