On a warm and breezy afternoon I went to Saul’s right after work.  I had my new dedicated Saulside setup.  Basically my 8.5 that I never want to try and ride in the streets again.  It was a really fun session.  Everyone skated hard and we had some good laughs jabbing at each other and denying complements.  Ha ha.  Jake can do a ton of tricks there and link long lines.  Front 5-0s, front disaster revert, flies over the hip like it’s nothing, long back 50s on the big coping, I’m probably forgetting a lot.  He couldn’t quite get pivot to fakie.  I had one of the worst slams I’ve taken there missing on a back 50 and barely missing my tailbone on the coping.  I got my wrists really good though.  I had tried to get kickflip, but couldn’t quite get it.  Had some fun carve grinds, front slashes and a front smith that was supposed to be a disaster.  Jake and I encouraged Saul to do his patented fast carve grind lines that are always a treat to see.   Saul had some close long back 50s.  Gotta stay a little more inside on those!  After some chatting we went over to the school where Saul hit the curbs and Jake and I played SKATE.  Well, mostly.  I was at SKAT and Jake was at SKA.  I was happy to get first try halfcab flip, but struggled with fakie bigflip or heelflip.  I was on the 8” setup.  Jake started to go in on treflips, but started to feel dizzy from hunger and sat down.  I went on to get a treflip in about 10-15 tries that was a nice way to end the day.

(setups saulside 8.5, normal 8”, new balance numeric 212 b/w size 11.5/12, nike sb zoom air insoles)
(pain level 3/10)

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