Feeling sore in the morning I went across the street to skate flat for a bit and see if my legs would work. They didn’t. I had some new 440s to try and help with pain. While they may have helped I was so frustrated I would give up pretty quickly. I think I did kickflip, fakie flip, halfcab flip, b/s flip. But they were all extremely slow and uncomfortable.

Then after some food I went to the pipe bank spot to meet Luzius, Rob, Will and Eric. What an awesome crew and it would really help cheer me up to be around friends. Will was trying a crazy trick when we got there. No comply disaster, but he never got it. We were talking about how Dave doesn’t need setup time and Eric made me laugh saying ‘normally you need to establish a cruising speed’. Eric had some slams on the awkward ledge, some good heelflips. Rob had somehow never skated there before. He was pretty quick to front boards, front nose 270, no comply beanplant (I think that’s what it’s called?) and crails. I had some warm up switch noses, a couple kickflips, a lot of boardslides and one tail stall. Also some fun carves over the pipes. Dave L did a lot of filming but then would casually kill some front 50, front tails, front 180 the pipe and back tail the curb. These dudes rule.

(setup 8.38 null smoke valley, jessup ultragrip, 5.8 ventures titanium axle, venom 91a bushings with both washers, spitfire 51mm green slag radial 99a f4, new balance 440s for flatground then 212s with run 619 insoles at bank)
(pain 6/10)