Woke up at 5:30 and didn’t have to work til 9:30. So I got going and went to Broomfield on a nice sunny day. I was determined to make the 8.5″ with Indys work. I skated it for awhile and warmed up on it. Ollie the parking block, nollie front tail the blue ledge, kickflip on flat, noseslide to fakie the black ledge. Then I was going for noseslide black ledge, front 50 front 180 out blue ledge, fakie flip, switch front nose black ledge. But I couldn’t front 50 the Indys. I debated it, but I went and grabbed the 8.25 and ended up getting that line real quick. I stayed with it the rest of the session even though I mostly hated it too. I did some basics training, akay ollieing onto ledges. Things I don’t do when others are around as I’m too embarrassed. I did ollie onto the black ledge and front 180 off then fakie bigflip. Manualled the blue pad even though I was just trying to ollie onto it. Ha. Had some longer crooks, couldn’t halfcab noseslide to save my life (UGH!). I tried a line that took awhile. Front slash the brick qp, boardslide transfer the brown ledge, kickflip flyout of the bank. I had gotten too tired to pop onto ledges anymore. Lastly I tried halfcab noseslides on the little blue ledge until I got a few. In between tries I posed switch flips which felt close until I started committing and then they were no where to be found. Weird session. Gonna go back to 8.3 and stay there forever (ha ha ha) and 52mm wheels.

(setup 8.25 nullosaur, jessup pj ultragrip, venture 5.8 cast plate titanium hanger, venom 91a big bushing and venture little bushing, spitfire 50mm f4 99a classic shape, new balance numeric 212 salmon size 12 with nike sb zoom air insoles)
(pain level 4/10 weird left knee pain)

On a warm evening I set out in front of the house to warm up briefly before going to campus. I had taken a couple days off after the 2nd vaccine shot kinda messed me up. I had setup an old 8.5″ deck with some Indys. It felt great initially until I got to a kickflip and remembered why I stopped skating Indys. So I biked to campus with my regular 8.25 and stopped at the flagstone ledge for a “warm up”. Instead I never got going and had one of those “why do I even try to skate?” sessions. My setup felt terrible. I hadn’t had a chance to put some larger wheels on. I had a couple slams on flatground kickflips, couldn’t ollie onto the ledge, couldn’t do other flippers. At one point I started to feel a little better doing crooks than b/s flip until I got a major shinner on the b/s flip. As it was getting dark I setup the camera for a crook so I could post and say something like “the only trick I have left” or something else dramatic and negative. I had done a few, but was trying to get a good one when I saw the spark. It was way brighter on my eyes than the video shows. It was cool. After that I sat for awhile and decided I would call it a day. I had gotten some other tricks like noseslide, noseslide fakie, boardslides, the slowest front 50 imaginable.

(setup 8.25 nullosaur, jessup pj ultragrip, venture 5.8 cast plate titanium hanger, venom 91a big bushing and venture little bushing, spitfire 50mm f4 99a classic shape, new balance numeric 212 salmon size 12 with nike sb zoom air insoles)
(pain level 4/10)