It’s been weeks since I’ve been to the dog park. I guess I’m taking the social distancing thing pretty serious. But I woke up early and work late and it was nice out. I wasn’t feeling too great, but that doesn’t normally stop me. I had switched to the cast baseplate, but other then that things were the same and felt the same. I had a fun initial slappy crook, then a sketchy slam on the first boardslide attempt. I was extra slow and cautious for a while, but things came together. I did some lines to get things going that aren’t noteworthy. First one I was happy with was front 5-0 the mini cinder block ledge, noseslide the tall side of the black ledge, noseslide to fakie the plastic ledge, fakie flip, halfcab noseslide the regular cinder block ledge, maybe a slappy crook at the end too. The thing I’m most happy about is committing to front 50s pretty much every try on the regular cinder block ledge. I got front 50, front 50 front 180, front 50 shove. I was trying to line it out with ollie over the mini cinder block ledge, but kept bailing the ollie. I would get it eventually though and it felt pretty easy and cool. I did the wallie thing and wood shot everywhere. Ha, my nose totally got tore up on that. The main parking block grinds so good. I had the best feeling front slappies and some really bad crooks on the cinder block ledge after. Then I got super tired and had very little energy and just kinda putzed around. I tried fakie nosegrinds on the mini cinder block ledge and failed, got a little front smith jib on the lower side of the black ledge. Man I love this park.

(setup 8.25 null curby deck, venture 5.8 titanium axle with custom hollow cast baseplate, doh dohs 88a boardside bushing no washer minilogo 94a roadside with flat washer, 53mm purple swirl blank wheels, 3 speed washers on the outside of each axle, new balance numeric 288s jack curtain size 11.5, no insoles)
(pain level 4/10 almost sharp pain in the right knee should have worn the incrediwear knee sleeve)

On a cooler day I went out for skate lunch again armed with a 11×11 list. I did a few slappies then went up to the designated flatground area and started flipping (out). I got kickflip first try, then took a bit to get another. I almost lost my mind trying to get a fakie flip which took 10 tries. And it wasn’t even on the list, just a warm up trick. Argh, at least halfcab flip warm up only took a couple tries. Then it was off to the list:
fakie bigflip – couldn’t do this. Came so close to focusing my board. This is normally so easy for me. The terrible one I got was like 20th try.
heelflip – Got a worse one first try, then that epic rocket heel pretty quick to calm me down a little.
halfcab heel – not even close
nollie varial flip – finally landed on it, but couldn’t ride away.
treflip – got a few, but all were terrible.
nollie big flip – not even close
varial heel – kinda close. I gave up on the list after this, it was too tough
switch bs flip
switch heel
fakie treflip
nollie inward heel
Then I went down do the original straight curb and tried switch front tail. I probably got closer to rolling my ankle than landing the trick. It’s my turn to give Dave a trick in our ongoing game of SKATE so I wanted to do switch front tail. Oh well. I gave up and remembered Dave saying he hadn’t done kickflip axle stall. I know he can do it and want to see it so I went for that. I got a few questionable ones before getting a good feeling one. Back to work.

(setup 8.25 null curby deck, venture 5.8 titanium, doh dohs 88a boardside bushing no washer minilogo 94a roadside flat washer, 53mm purple swirl blank wheels, 3 speed washers on the outside of each axle, new balance numeric 288s jack curtain size 11.5, no insoles, incrediwear knee sleeve)
(pain level 4/10)

Went across the street after getting a text from Max who wanted to grab and old 8.5 board of mine.  I would be there about 30 minutes before him and Will showed.  I had switched bushings yet again, this time they felt just about right.  Doh dohs 88a barrel and mini logo 94a little one.  It was really warm and sunny out.  I was wearing shorts.  It felt nice.  I had done quite a few of the normal routing before they showed.  I had the fastest front slappy I’ve done, it felt awesome.  Got a kickflip off the curb cut after.  Max and Will were on it pretty quick.  Will did the best slappy line I’ve seen there.  Slappy front crook transfer up, nollie front tail to switch crooks to fakie, switch front shove.  I feel like it’s missing a flatground trick, but wow, it was sick.  Max was doing crazy switch manuals up and own the curb cuts and got a line of 360 flip up into a curb cut and then nollie flip out to the parking lot.  He also had a killer fakie flip out of one.  I had a few decent slappy front crooks and maybe my first switch front tail.  I basically did a switch 90 and landed on all 4, but the nose was pretty clearly on the curb.  I also amused max with a bs flip attempt out of the curb cut that only turned 90 degrees.  And somehow I rode away.  I also got a 360 flip out which made me happy.  Then it was time to go back to work.  

(setup 8.25 null curby deck, venture 5.8 titanium, doh dohs 88a boardside bushing no washer minilogo 94a roadside flat washer, 53mm purple swirl blank wheels, 3 speed washers on the outside of each axle, new balance numeric 288s jack curtain size 11.5, no insoles, incrediwear knee sleeve)
(pain level 3/10)