On another overcast day with rain threatening I went to Douglass feeling okay and with a smaller board again. I started just kind of putzing around with non popped flatground tricks. Then did a few flip tricks and then mixed in some lines. I really didn’t land a whole lot, but man I was trying. At one point I tried a nollie tre and it made me a little sad realizing I haven’t even tried one for weeks. I got a heelflip, bad treflip, halfcab flips, first try fakie varial flip. I hucked a lot of flip tricks I’ve never done, didn’t really get close to anything, but it was fun. I had some boardslides, noseslides, crooks on the ledge that felt good. I didn’t try frontside stuff really, only tried to ollie onto it which I got on, but never quite got on it. I tried noseslide back 270 for awhile. Maybe made some progress to learning it. It started to sprinkle and I was running out of time so I tried a few front 50s. Didn’t get close at all. I wasn’t upset as it’s been awhile since I tried to ollie that high.

Then I filmed Jack slay it.

Then we skated Saul’s for a bit. I really sucked it up and bailed too many axle stalls and the run outs killed my knees. Eric was ripping though. Back d the deep, manual to feeble fakie, front 5-0 to tail. Saul locked into some back 50s, tried a front 50, had sme of his great long runs. Jack didn’t really skate.

Fun day.

(setup 8.38″ null lazer deck, venture ftc 5.8s, doh dohs bushings (blue 88a barrel boardside one, yellow 92a roadside), bones stf v2 51mm wheels, new balance numeric 212 maroon size 12, nike zoom air insoles)
(pain level 3/10)

After some heavy rain super early in the morning it kind of cleared out. Enough to skate. I was hoping for anywhere but Glenn Close, but that’s where we ended up. Saul and Jake were there first. There was still a puddle near the main curb, but it was mostly skateable. Jake was using it to ollie over and setup for slappy crook. Saul was slappying everything. I came out unmotivated and lost the little motivation I had quickly. Partly due to being at that spot again, partly because I immediately hated the huge board. Rob was next, Fuzz after that. I don’t remember a whole lot. I tried a line for awhile of slappy, front 180 the puddle, fakie nosegrind. Never got the fakie nosegrind. Rob was shredding. Kickflips off the curb cut and to the street. Jake had a long line or two with fakie f/s bigspin off the curb cut, slappy crooks, bluntslide, etc. Fuzz and I tried slappy back 50 back 180 out. Fuzz nailed it, but it didn’t come easy. A lot more happened. We ended trying to manual the parking lot. Rob got all of it first try. Fuzz shortly got it all and then some (to the street). I took a lot of tries to get a sketchy through all of the parking lines. It was really fun. Then we tried nose manuals and Rob got the whole section too. So sick. I think I got about 5 parking spots, Fuzz about 8. Jake had been doing 360 flips instead of manuals, he got one. Then we played football which was way more fun. Ha ha.

(setup 8.75″ null event horizon deck, venture ftc 5.8s, doh dohs bushings (blue 88a barrel boardside one, yellow 92a roadside), bones stf v2 51mm wheels with 3 speed washers on the inside axle, new balance numeric 212 maroon size 12, nike zoom air insoles)
(pain level 4/10)