On a nice sunny morning where clouds rolled in quick I met Rob at the mellow Valmont bank. We started with some carvy 360s, no complies, nollie shoves, nosestalls on the side curb. I got a second try kickflip to fakie. Rob had a pretty epic primo slam a couple tries later. Rob had no comply bigspin. I did a few of my basic flippers. Rob did a sick front tail to fakie on the side curb, wallie nollie turn around on the side wall. I got a sketch axle stall on the side and then we left to go back to my house to meet Dave at the school. He had waxed up the main top section. He was doing super long slappy noseslides and lining out 180s off the curb cuts and cabs on flat. I was able to get the backside slappy up onto the curb pretty quick this time. It felt nice. Rob had some struggles going, but still managed some great back 50s. One with a no comply out. I couldn’t get up on a frontside slappy for the longest time. Dave had several slappy crook shoves and almost lined one out with a switch crook shove. I was doing a lot of kickflips. This time got the line of kickflip off curb, kickflip up curb, kickflip into the curb cut, backside slappy. Felt fun. Dave was doing 180s out of the curb cuts the hard way. Rob had focused his board and was chilling. I got a few slappy front crooks. They didn’t grind far and I didn’t ride out of them well, but I managed to follow one with a little treflip out of the curb cut. That was the highlight for me, felt good to be trying hard.

(setup 8.5″ null lazer deck, venture ftc 5.8s, doh dohs bushings (blue 88a barrel boardside one, yellow 92a roadside) no boardside washer, bones stf v1 pj 53mm wheels with all washers on the outside, new balance numeric 379 brown/gum size 12, nb# westgate insoles)
(pain level 2/10)

On a warm day I picked up Kevin, made a run to Emage then ended up at York St to meet Cass. It felt very hot and bright when we got there. Luckily some clouds would come in from time to time and keep it from being too hot. After an initial period of dorking around (for me that is, Kevin’s warm up is to 50 every ledge first try) we skated the manny pad area. I had a first try nose manual. Man the big setup feels great for manuals. Kevin and Cass were doing tricks up the little angle iron ledge then off the manny pad. I had started to shy away from it as the narrowness scares me. But I want to be able to skate the same ledges as others so I forced myself to front 50 up it. I did it so slow and sketchy, but Cass loved it. Ha. Kevin had done the 5-0 then noseblunt right out of the gate. I think he had done 50, 5-0, tail and nosegrind first try. We all did front noseslides up it. Cass locks in so good Jason would be proud. Kevin got a good one too. I had a sketchy one or two that slid out. My switch ollie up then switch front noseslide was fun. I did a fakie flip after, but Kevin had panned away. Went back for the fakie flip and slammed in a fun way. Kevin was trying noseblunt to fakie for a long time and I started posing front 5-0s on the out ledge. I know it looks like nothing, but I haven’t 5-0d anything like that in a long time. It felt really cool to try it. Kevin ended up giving up on noseblunt to fakie and got a first try front blunt. It was so sick. I had tried a few kickflips up too, one turned into a weckable kickflip manual, most I didn’t land. I would get the 5-0. As you can see it wasn’t pretty, but man it felt really cool. That was the end of the session. Then we hit 303 then ate and drank while watching the Nuggets. Fun times.

(setup 8.5″ null lazer deck, venture ftc 5.8s, doh dohs bushings (blue 88a barrel boardside one, yellow 92a roadside) no boardside washer, bones stf v1 pj 53mm wheels with all washers on the outside, new balance numeric 379 brown/gum size 12, thin rubbery adidas insoles)
(pain level 2/10)

After dinner I went across the street for a short session. I wanted to do some slappies, but there was some kid learning to bike and he kept following me ringing his bell like an idiot. So I went over to the regular non-painted section. It ended up being super fun. I was feeling a little better physically. I had slappy crooks, slappy front crooks, back 50s, back 50 back 180 out for the first time in awhile, front 5-0, front 50 back 180, front tails. First try 360 flip, halfcab flip. I haven’t been skating flatground much lately, but those two were fun. I went in on fakie nosegrind 180 out. I technically got a couple, but they were really weak. It was fun trying it though.

(setup 8.5″ null lazer deck, venture ftc 5.8s, doh dohs bushings (blue 88a barrel boardside one, yellow 92a roadside) no boardside washer, bones stf v1 pj 53mm wheels with all washers on the outside, new balance numeric 379 brown/gum size 12, thin adidas insoles)
(pain level 4/10)

Still feeling incredibly tired and sore on a nice night Saul wanted to check out the freshly painted curbs across the street. I couldn’t refuse. Ed joined as did some kids learning to bike. Ha. I think Saul nailed like 10 perfect backside slappies to start the session. He seriously does them so good. Ed started going frontside because he’s so good at those. We found one section that grinded better than the rest and mostly stuck with it. Had some fun lines with the curb cuts doing kickflips and 180s to the parking lot. I finally got some slappies up on the curb. They were nothing like Saul’s though. Ed had some good 180s off the curb cuts. This spot has so much line potential. I was so tired, but it was a really fun session. It rules having such a good spot across the street.

(setup 8.5″ null lazer deck, venture ftc 5.8s, doh dohs bushings (blue 88a barrel boardside one, yellow 92a roadside) no boardside washer, bones stf v1 pj 53mm wheels with all washers on the outside, new balance numeric 379 brown/gum size 12, thin adidas insoles)
(pain level 5/10)