After work I went to dog park around the time Skelly finished up at the skatepark and we skated. Tim and Ben from Evergreen also skated. Those two charged hard out of the gates with manuals and nose manuals on the wedge to picnic table. Skelly and I started slower and lower. I wanted to feel better than I did. I know that’s always the story, but I didn’t really get to what I wanted to try. Partly because the cinder block ledge was a total mess then later on I had some knee pain that made ollies hard. I had done a few flippers, but nothing good. Had some fun slappy crooks both ways. Skelly had some good halfcab boardslides, lipslides the curbs, manuals, etc. After awhile a tweaker came into the park and was really wanting to skate. Sean was kind enough to let him ride his board. Dude definitely had skated before and did some boardslides and ollies and managed to survive. He wouldn’t shut up though, so loud not making any sense. He finally left. I ended it kind of doing a nosegrind on the slow low but with a little bonk on the way out.

(setup 8.3 null spanbauer night deck, jessup ultragrip, thunder hollow 148, bones stf v1 52mm 103a, new balance numeric 212 cream size 12, nike sb zoom air insoles)
(pain level 4/10 some knee pain)

Before dinner on a cool day I went over to the school to finally do the silly trick I’ve been trying to do for Dave.  Nollie back tail shove.  I had a fun time hucking and it was a good warm up even if I did it so terribly.  I also randomly started hucking nollie big back heel and some felt close, also switch flips.  I had done a few other basic stalls which were fun like front tail, back 180 nosepick.  Neighbor kid Ben showed up and was fun to skate with.  After doing the nbts we skated the curbs up top.  I had some fun slappies and flippers.  Got both halfcab flips, f/s halfcab heel, fakie flip.  Came close to a slappy crook followed by kick back tail.  Did a front tail followed by front shove from the curb but to parking lot.  Ended it on a front slappy then kickflip from the curb cut to parking lot.  Ben had done some good slappies, took some good slams trying front slappies, back 180s into the curb cut.  It’s pretty rad watching someone learn skateboarding.

(setup 8.3 null spanbauer night deck, jessup ultragrip, thunder hollow 148, bones stf v1 52mm 103a, new balance numeric 212 cream size 12, nike sb zoom air insoles)
(pain level 3/10)