Met Dave on a nice afternoon at Blue Skies after a busy day at work. Yes, Dave is skating again! It ruled seeing him. We started in the basketball court as there was a father/daughter combo skating around the hockey rink. I was struggling super hard to start. Actually, the whole time, but it seemed more embarrassing initially. I was struggling to hit my tail on 180s, couldn’t back 180 at all. We moved into the hockey rink. Dave still has the fakie shoves like it’s nothing, did some regular shoves, cabs, nollie 180s. He was looking good on his board for having such a big bandage on his knee. He was doing lines with 180, switch ollie or fakie shove, cab, switch no comply shove then trying to end with kickflip. He never quite got the kickflip, but definitely got the confidence back to commit. I had put different insoles in and as embarrassing as it is to use that as an excuse, I think it really did mess with me. I got kickflip, fakie flip, barely a halfcab flip, both heels down on a fakie bigflip, not close to treflip. The redeeming trick was getting super close to Rick flip.

(setup 8.3 null collage deck, venture 5.6 v-lights, spitfire 52mm tablets 99a f4, 3 washers inside each axle, bones medium bushings, jessup grip, new balance numeric 255 b/w size 12, nm# Foy insoles)
(pain level 4/10)

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