On a warm and breezy Friday afternoon Dave persuaded me to see if my back would let me skate. When I arrived Valmont was totally empty so I started there. I was having upper back pain the last couple days and somehow it didn’t really effect my skating. I skated about 30 minutes before Dave came over and a brief visit from Eric. I started really slow feeling disoriented and wearing cupsoles to reduce knee pain. I would try Dave’s cab no comply challenge here and there, then some other stuff. Got kickflip and kickflip fakie on the bank pretty quick. Had a fun line doing the hip ollie, back 180 skid around the next hip then the cab no comply. Never got too close there, but was closer in the top bowly thing. Dave showed and we lined some stuff out having the park mostly to ourselves still. Hucked some tricks on the flat bank for a bit, I felt like f/s halfcab heel was doable, but never got one to flip under me. Then we mostly lined things out like above and it was fun skating it that way. I landed quite a few kickflips to fakie on the hump, Dave got a lot of switch front shoves. Dave did his line the first try I started to film. I took a few tries especially after some freak slam where I came really close to smacking my dome. It was scary and would take a bit out of me, but I would get up and get the line. I knew I should have just tried fakie bigflip as I was close to that as well. Dave got a bigflip on the bank and we went over to dog park. But I was toast at that point and Eric was winding down too. I saw some Dave nose manuals. I don’t remember doing anything myself, maybe just a couple basics. Eric landed on back heels, but didn’t quite get them around enough to ride away. TGIF.

(setup 8.25 null spanbauer, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.6 cast plate v-hollow hanger with royal bushings flat top washer, bones 52mm slims 99a stf, new balance numeric 425 black/gum 11.5 with half splay insole)
(pain level 3/10 but that slam did some damage)