On a nice day I woke up from a nap and decided on campus. I was really wanting to hit the hallway ledge and do halfcab flip then noseslide. I kind of lapped around campus before ending up at the little two stair to warm up. There’s a little bank up to the steps, so it feels like a bank to curb. A very mellow bank to curb yes, but I still like it. I haven’t really skated it that way before. I really want to rub brick/wax it up. I was hurting pretty bad still, started with nosestall 270s, nollie tails, eventually some pivots and front tails. Then trick kickflip pivot and front tail 270 shove for a bit. I went across the street to the hallway spot where I absolutely made a fool of myself. I was trying to fakie flip with the tiniest bit of speed and slammed in front of a window with a student sitting there. So I gave up on the 3 trick line and just tried the halfcab flip into the bank. It didn’t come easy this time, but I would get the line twice. I wanted to try treflip into the “bank” too, but I wasn’t feeling it. I did a really slow crooks then lurked some other spots. Most of which either had snow or sand and I ended up just going home feeling pretty defeated. I had tried some thinner insoles which did reduce some knee pain, but then seemed to make everything else worse. Argh.

(setup 8.5 null jack pro deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.8 cast baseplate titanium hanger no big washer, 53mm spitfire f4 99a conical full red/blue swirl, new balance numeric 22 maroon size 12, footprint 3.5mm insoles)
(pain level 6/10)

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