Got to Boulder park on a nice morning somehow feeling less sore armed with 8.3/5.8 again.  It felt alright, poppy, familiar.  I went on to have an alright session, pretty good considering I was there well before 7am.  My 5.8s are so worn down and Ti doesn’t grind too well.  Guess I need to figure out which size I want to skate to do the christmas complete.  I had a warm up line of crooks the bench, b/s flip the hump.  Also a bunch of noseslides the bank to ledge then ollies onto the bench or front 50 and 180 out.   Almost manualled the triangle from the top side.  Was getting frustrated at the end and tried a bunch of noseslide 270 shoves, but was not close.  

(setup null 8.3 smoke valley, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.8 cast base titanium hanger no big washer flat top washer, 51mm spitfire 101a classic shape f4 washers outside, new balance numeric 288s green/gum size 11.5 no insoles)
(pain level 3/10)

On an absolutely gorgeous cloudy 70 degree afternoon I went to meet Rob at dog park.  I had put the 8.3 deck back on.  The valmont park was completely empty so I started there and it was quite fun.  Tried a couple lines.  Barrier ride, carve around then kickflip fakie.  Other way I tried ollie the hip euro, back 180 the next hip then posed halfcab flips on the little bank.  Was getting into it when a bunch of kids on bikes went through mud and right into the park.  

The valmont warmup was nice as I started out pretty good in the dog park.  Rob was already linking lines with halfcab boardslides or noseslides, back 50 back 180s, manuals, and close to nollie front lips.  I tried a line for a bit of switch front nose the metal bench, fakie flip, halfcab boardslide the little flat bar, but I couldn’t get the halfcab board.  I don’t think I really did anything else of note really, but I was skating alright and having fun.  Rob and I played another game of SKATE.  I couldn’t get a halfcab flip to save my life, but was hyped to get a halfcab one foot.  Rob won it on a no comply back 360.  I skated a little more after that, a fakie 50 or two then my wheel fell off again trying a slappy so I was over it.  And possibly over Aces.

(setup 8.38 smoke valley null, jessup ultragrip, ace af1 low 55, 52mm bones stf 99a v3 slims, new balance numeric 288S green/gum no insoles)
(pain level 5/10 super achy)

Had thought that maybe with how much shorter Aces are that I’d want a wider board.  Nope.  As soon as I set the 8.5 down I disliked it.  My wheel fell off twice in the early stages which bummed me out.  Turns out Ace axle nots pop off on front slappies.  I was a little late and Rob had already fizzled out.  We played a game of SKATE.  I think Rob one it on a cab.  We did some fun one foot and no comply variations.  I came close to 360 shoves, but couldn’t get one.  

(setup 8.5 smoke valley null, jessup pj ultragrip, ace af1 low 55, 52mm bones stf 99a v3 slims, new balance numeric 288S green/gum no insoles)
(pain level 4/10 achy)