On a cool morning I brought my quiver to the dog park. 8.25, 8.5 and 8.75. I was a little later than the last couple days because I had been called for work. I warmed up on all 3 trying a line to see which board worked the best. Boardslide the butter bench, front 50 the little metal ledge, kickflip, back 50 the lower step. For awhile I thought I’d just be happy and stick with 8.25 because I couldn’t kickflip the 8.75. The 8.5 setup had some bushing that had totally froze up and made the comparisons a little hard. Anyway, the 8.75 started to win even though I struggled with kickflips. I ended up mostly skating it the rest of the session. I’m not calling it a setup change, but it probably will go down and I’ll owe Launch some money. I went on to actually have fun on my skateboard again even when a couple high school kids came and hogged the benches. I did a few things I hadn’t done in awhile. Kinda ollied the wallie barrier. Actually, it was epic as I ollied it but rode down the other side. It takes special skills to be that bad. Had some good crooks, halfcab noseslide, noseslide to fakie on the taller metal bench, ollie the little kinked rail, front 180 a parking block super easy. Struggled with flip tricks, but was having enough fun to actually try them. I got a line that made me happy enough to leave. Fakie nosegrind, switch 180 then front smith the lower step (I didn’t grind, but popped out quick – whatever it’s me). So this whole goal of the same setup all year might technically be shot, but at least I had fun. I wanted to stick with 8.75 initially before the wheelbase was different in the latest null shipment. So maybe I can just blame Generator. Ha ha. It was nice to enjoy skateboarding.

(setup a mixture of old stuff, boards, 2020 8.25 setup and 8.75)
(pain level 3/10 feeling better too!)

Feeling a little better physically I went to the dog park before work and had about an hour to skate. I skated TERRIBLY. The only thing I was happy with was a couple halfcab noseslides on the cinder block benches. I was almost unable to front 50 a bench. I tried to ollie the wallie barrier after and couldn’t do it. I couldn’t land halfcab flip. It was so depressing I went back to obsessing over my setup.

(setup 2020 setup 8..25 null abstract 6 deck, venture 5.6 cast baseplate/v-hollow axles, bones medium bushings, old 53mm pj bones stf v1, 2 washers inside each axle, jessup ultragrip, new balance numeric 306 foy white/gum size 12, nike sb zoom air insoles)
(Pain level 4/10)