After another frustrating day of work I went to dog park to meet Rob. To my delight Donnie was there too and we all started out at the skatepark. There weren’t many people there so it made for a good warm up. Rob and I had some fun rides on the barrier. I bailed a few axle stalls. Donnie shredded the bowl. Last thing I remember was ollieing the little euro and Donnie getting my back with a front 270 over it.

Then we went to the ledges. It really is nice getting the legs warmed up before hitting the ledges. Pretty quickly I did one of the lines I’ve been working on for awhile. Nollie front tail, crooks, kick back 50 the small manny pad. The kick back 50 was first try and it put me in a good mood. The bigger setup felt weird, but I was finally able to pop up onto things easier. Managed to manual the little pad a few times and get remotely close to to nose manual around the c pad. I had some new insoles that have a rough surface and it made things feel a little weird. I didn’t have foot pain, but my knees did get sore. I couldn’t get heelflip or treflip, but I did get first try halfcab flip, f/s halfcab flip and fakie bigflip. Rob was shredding as always. More of the back 50 nollies out. Also had a run that got a few people hyped which I think was back 50 back 180 out, halfcab boardslide then ended with a steezy no comply up the c ledge. Boardslide transfers and manuals on the c ledge too. Donnie was doing sick ollies over the crack gap to quick manual (and eventually nose manual) then close to front nose the upper deck. He had all kinds of cool tricks really, casual 50s on stuff, wallies, bonks. Pretty fun session.

(setup null 8.5 smoke valley, jessup pj ultragrip, venture 5.8 cast base titanium axle, bones medium bushings, 54mm bones stf v3 99a washers outside, new balance numeric 288s grey size 11.5 naboso activation insoles)
(pain level 2/10 some achilles pain)

On a cool rainy night I went out to the little space in my garage and skated flatground. Rather than use the putter I went the opposite direction – 8.5. It felt alright. I started with several basics which these days means 180s and shoves. Then got a few kickflips, fakie flips, heelflips, b/s flips then went in on treflip. It’s so hard to do treflips in that little of space. I think it’s partly why I do 270 flips a lot because I can’t lean forward enough for fear of hitting my head on the garage door if I hang up. Anyway, I got one in about 15 tries, then the funny fall shortly after that, then eventually two in a row that made me happy. I tried some nollie varial flips after that, but never got one.

(setup null 8.5 smoke valley, jessup pj ultragrip, venture 5.8 cast base titanium axle, bones medium bushings, 54mm bones stf v3 99a washers outside, new balance numeric 288s grey size 11.5 no insoles)
(pain level 2/10 some achilles pain)