Went to the dog park before work on the last nice morning in awhile (according to the forecast). Warming up felt pretty good, I did lots of boardslides, then noseslides, then everything. I had put the green spits on my 8.5″ setup. It felt great out of the gate and felt great throughout. Since halfcab noseslide to fakie is a somewhat new trick for me I decided to go challenge Dave to it. So I filmed that for a couple of tries then said no more filming. I couldn’t get halfcab crook. I struggled with wallies over the little barrier for some reason. Got front 50 and front 50 180 on the concrete bench, crooks, switch front nose, a slow first try back 50 on the lower step. Flatground went decent. Kickflip, fakie flip, halfcab flip, b/s flip, heelflip, multiple treflips. Near the end I tried a line of slappy crook, treflip, ollie the small barrier. Even though the treflip was pretty bad and I tapped the barrier with my back wheels it felt good. Off to work.

So this is it. 8.5. One year goal. Starting today. 8.5″ deck, 8.5″ Ventures. One year.

(setup 8.5 null nolan deck, Venture 5.8 trucks (cast baseplate, titanium hanger), bones medium bushings , spitfire F4 52mm 99a green swirl wheels, 2 washers inside each axle, new balance numeric 306 Foy b/w size 12, footprints gamechanger insoles)
(pain level 2/10)

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