Around noon on a warm Sunday I went to dog park feeling arthritic like I ate gluten the day before. So I warmed up by sweeping the puddles thinner so they would dry. Kevin showed right about when I started skating. As bad as I felt I seemed to skate pretty good for awhile. I was trying a line of wallie, heelflip, noseslide to fakie the lo-hi, switch boardslide the butter bench. I had gotten every wallie I tried and to my surprise my heelflips were super consistent. I think I got 8 in a row at one point and probably got 15 or so total. I was hyped, but couldn’t get the switch boardslide. Got some halfcab flips instead sometimes. Kevin was ripping as usual. The line above took awhile, but when he got the noseblunt the rest came easy. Dan showed up on his lunch break. It rules skating with him sometimes now. He was shredding so hard. The bailed line above doesn’t show it, but he really did slay it. Nollie cab over the barrier, lots of flip tricks, nosegrinds over the top of lo-hi, got the front noseblunt on the ledge. Sean showed up and so quickly destroyed. The lines above came relatively easy, but he got stuck on back 5-0 shove for awhile before changing it to nosegrind shove. The nosegrind on the table was so sick. That was pretty much it for me, I filmed Sean on campus after that which was fun too.

(setup 8.5 Null Lazer deck, venture trucks 5.8 cast baseplate titanium hanger , venom 91a bushings with no bottom washer, bones 52mm stf sidecuts wheels, new balance numeric 868 black/gum size 12, currex runpro medium arch insole )
(pain level 6/10)

After lots of planning that changed Rob, Kevin and I ended up at the dog park as clouds rolled in. There was almost no one there and the clouds made it nice out. We did our warm up things then had a good session. Rob had a sick line of back 50 the lo-hi then nose manual shove the manny pad. The steez on the shove out was incredible. Kevin had worked up to the top stair on the lo-hi and did the craziest front smith to floater. Kevin has no problem with the taller ledges. He did something to front blunt the butter bench. I had gotten a couple crooks on the butter bench that felt alright, finally some back 50s on lo-hi, wallies, somewhat close to front nosegrind. Right before the rain rolled in I got a switch front nose shove that felt great. No tic tac finally. Then finished with an over the corner back 50 on the lo-hi that will hopefully come easier in the future.

After some food we ended up at redder curbs. Kevin and I played a warmup game of SKATE without many flippers that I lost badly while Rob cruised around to warm up. Kevin had some nice back 50s, but started feeling sick from the heat/food. Rob was trying front tail front shove out, some were close. He was doing really sick wallride nollies to start. I had been messing around with slappy front crook then nollie front tail to fakie when Fuzz showed up. Kevin wanted to film my line. I thought it would be easy, but somehow I forgot how to do nollie front tails. Maybe I can blame the big bulky shoes I was wearing, but probably not. I did get it once or twice. Once with a bad fakie flip after. Then we got more food and had some drinks at Deviant. Hanging with the boys was so fun even if I was the only one that couldn’t hop up from my knees.

(setup 8.5 Null Lazer deck, venture trucks 5.8 cast baseplate titanium hanger , venom 91a bushings with no bottom washer, bones 52mm stf sidecuts wheels, new balance numeric 868 black/gum size 12, currex runpro medium arch insole )
(pain level 3/10)