After going out for breakfast and hanging with the family for a while I eventually made it out to skate. I went by the new spot near my house that would be oh so much more fun if it hadn’t been knobbed. I warmed up briefly, had some great feeling kickflips. Then tried a line of halfcab flip on flat then ollie the lower of the gaps. The knobs are really close together making ollies onto the ledge hard, luckily you can just ride on at one point. I had all these ideas for things to try, but it wasn’t as fun as I had thought and there were kids playing hide and seek and their parents (younger than me) kept looking at me weird. The curve into the lower gap was hard. I would get it, and also did it with a fakie bigflip to start. But none of the ollies were good. I made myself commit to the larger gap and it was depressing how scary and hard it was for me. I never got a clean landing. The runway is only one push and the roll away is only about 6 feet long. Oh well.

Then I went to the flagstone bench where I started to feel pretty tired and lazy. I had some okay crooks, but really struggled. Couldn’t ollie onto it or front 50. The spot is really tough to skate. Rough brushed concrete, large cracks and it’s narrow. The dork trick was kind of fun.

Then I went down to the next school and made myself do 10 flip tricks. The basketball court was smooth, but not level and the imperfections messed with me. Almost all of the tricks I did were terrible. I got kickflip, fakie flip, halfcab flip, f/s halfcab flip, fakie bigflip, heelflip (the only trick I liked and it’s been hard lately), f/s halfcab heel, absolutely terrible varial flip, backside flip and fakie heelflip. Not all days can be as fun as yesterday.

(8.25 null spanbauer, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.2 lows bones medium bushings, spitfire 51mm 101a classic shape with 2 washers inside, new balance numeric 288S b/w size 11.5 440 insoles)
(pain level 4/10)

Out pretty early on a very nice Saturday I met Cass, Kevin, Venture Dave and Jake at Golden park. There was still quite a bit of snow and we shoveled and squeegeed the little ledge section. Which is kind of funny because we never actually skated it, we just hit the main park as it was mostly dry and it was super fun. I had switched back to lows and would love it when I hucked a b/s flip early on and mostly landed it. We were up top doing some ride on grinds, qp and flatground up to start with. Kevin was rattling off trick after trick. Then we settled in on the east side of the park having some fun lines with the ledges and banks. Dave was manualling the west side deck, shoves and impossibles on the bank. Jake and Kevin did rock fakies on one of the steep qps. Jake almost got a back blunt on another steep qp. Cass had some good noseslides, crooks. Kevin was landing everything. 50s up the ledge, crooks down, nollie varial flips, nollie treflips. Cass never quite got the front board shove. Jake said our physical challenge should be boardsliding down the ledge. I baby stepped to it and would get it. His knee started hurting so he forfeited the win to me. I was hyped to get first try kickflip, fakie flip, varial flip and fakie varial flip on the bank. I was working on fakie tre when the wind kicked in fierce. We skated a while longer, but it was tough so we took off.

Jake and Dave were done. Kevin, Cass and I went to triple nipple. The park itself had no snow in it, but snow runoff made the ledge unskateable. Doh. It took me a bit to find a fun way to skate it considering half the park was wet. But it ended up being a pretty good time. The little transfers over the spine are so fun. I had some front 50s, first front feeble in a long time and took a bit to get the disaster to sugarcane. Kevin had lines for days and worked for the switch flip. Cass on the other hand gets off the bench, does the front shove second try then goes back to chilling. My kickflip felt about as bad as it looked, but it was still fun. Pretty awesome day really.

(8.25 null spanbauer, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.2 lows bones medium bushings, spitfire 51mm 101a classic shape with 2 washers inside, new balance numeric 288S b/w size 11.5 440 insoles)
(pain level 3/10)