After running boards to Square House I met up with Riley, Rob, Kevin, Cass, Jake on a really nice day. The skatepark was mostly empty so we started there. Riley loved it for the first few minutes, then came to similar conclusions as the rest of us. I really don’t remember a whole lot about this part of the session other than being reminded how much Riley rips. Nollie inward up the euro was hot.

Dog park was where it’s at. It was hard to pay attention to everyone. Kevin got hung up on switch front crooks. Riley did halfcab crooks revert and switch flip nose manny halfcab. Wow. Kevin also got nollie 180 crooks. Cass hadn’t skated in a month because of back problems and was rusty. Jake, Cass and I played a game of SKATE. I was keeping with my theme of rotation shoes and wearing some Es Swifts. They were comfy, but less board feel and made flip tricks hard on the big board. Jake won it on treflip. I was quite mad that I didn’t get one in a couple tries, but would get a bad 270 flip in under 10 tries. At least the game got me trying stuff. Finally got a nose manual again, good feeling switch front noseslides, but really that’s about it until the end when I tried halfcab noseslide 270 shoves for awhile. That’s the latest challenge from Dave. I would go on to get a very bad one. Then a bunch of 98% folks showed up and it was awesome. Riley front 5-0 back shove the table, Joe 50 from flat, Squeeks back lip. We finished with some fun cruising at the park again. Riley had a mega flyout stink bug ha ha. I honestly was somehow getting a second wind and wanted to skate more, but everyone else wanted to eat. I had some fun ollies to fakie, backside nollies and a cab on the banks. Good times with friends.

(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, es swift 1.5 white size 12 naboso activation insoles)
(pain level 3/10)

Yeah yeah once again I went to dog park area after a somewhat chill day of work for once. It was super nice out and to my surprise neither park was busy. I started out in the skate park. I found a kind of fun little section I hadn’t noticed before trying to do some slashes on some little volcanos. I kind of didn’t care about other people doing their pumping and would just skate the little qp there and cut them off. Eventually tried the noseslide then kickflip for awhile, but couldn’t roll away from the kickflip. I kept getting wheelbite. Stupid 54mm wheels.

Then I went over to dog park and skated okay. Nothing really stands out. Oh I was wearing some old Numeric 22s and had some good feeling kickflips. Also halfcab flip and fakie bigflip. Still not enough drive to commit to treflip on the big 8.5. I had gotten to a point where I wanted to try some nosegrinds, but my knee went twang while setting up so called it a 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 22 marroon size 12 naboso activation insoles)
(pain level 3/10 achilles then general pain after skating vulcs)