Woke up early and still depressed about skateboarding I figured I’d get it over with while I was still in a good mood.  I had the park to myself for awhile.  I was skating okay.  I had brought out my 8.25 setup since I ended my 8.3 and 8.5 is too big for me.  I had done a few basics, was feeling okay when the low trucks started to get to me.  50’d a few things, back 50 the little thing, kinda ollie the wallie thing. A self hyping bro showed up and was killing it.  Not what I needed in the morning.  I needed to get to work so I tried switch front nose shoves for a bit.  Kinda got one.

(setup 8.25 null curby, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.2 awake lows, 3 washers inside each axle, 53mm blank purple swirl wheels, new balance numeric 306 foy blue size 12, nike sb zoom insoles)
(pain level 1/10)

After work I should have gone to Saul’s, but instead I took a long nap. After dinner I had some energy and made a goal of doing 15 flip tricks with the reward of a tasty IPA from Holidaily. It took me about an hour and a half, but I did it! Here’s the list.

Kickflip – after a brief warm up this was first try
Fakie flip – first try
Varial flip – took awhile, put my board normal instead of backwards and got it the next try.
Fakie varial flip – took forever! I almost gave up
Halfcab flip – a few tries
Heelflip – a few tries
Fakie bigflip – a few tries
Backside flip – few tries
360 flip – this made me happy to get in only a few tries
Fs halfcab flip – took quite awhile
Sex change – took awhile
Fs halfcab heel – not too long
Halfcab heel – took awhile, but when i landed it i was very happy
Fakie heel – by this point I was really tired. this took about 10 tries and I was very relieved to land it.
Fs flip – I tried nollie tre for awhile, but it took a lot of energy. Heelflip sex change, Rick flips too. But in the end I went for what was easiest because I was so tired. It wasn’t pretty, but it would count against Jake on defense ha ha.

(setup 8.25 null curby, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.6 v-hollows, 53mm blank purple swirl wheels, new balance numeric 306 foy blue size 12, nike sb zoom insoles)
(pain level 2/10)

After work I went across the street to the shaded alley for a short one.  But it would be much shorter than I had hoped.  Warming up did not go well. I tried a simple warm up run of pop shove then front pop shove and it took like 10 tries. Next the kickflip, no comply 180, fakie flip took forever.  I couldn’t halfcab flip either.  About the only saving grace was getting a few backside flips.  I almost rolled my ankle on a varial heel.  Got a huge flat spot back 180’ing the manhole.  Then I’m not even sure which trick, but I focused my board before I even knew what I was doing.  I didn’t even get angry.  I just sat down and looked at my phone for awhile before walking home.  I really wanted to like those orange/blue wheels, but they are huge and I think the massive flat spot will be enough to get rid of them.

(setup 8.3 null collage deck, venture 5.6 v-hollows, 3 speed washers on the inside of each axle, 53mm spitfire classics blue/orange, new balance numeric 306 foy blue size 12, nike zoom air insoles)
(pain level 3/10)