After a very long and frustrating day of work I went to dog park in the 95 degree heat. I started out at the almost empty valmont park on my 8.3 setup with ace lows. I didn’t like it. Didn’t do anything special, but it was a decent little warm up. I went over to the dog park and quickly switched back to my 8.25. I did some whatever warmup then basically spent all my time trying two easy lines. I wanted to do halfcab noseslide the metal bench, then ollie the double parking blocks then a flipper. I settled for crooks then ollie and when I did that I basically manualled the curb, almost got backside flip after. Coming the other way I really wanted to do fakie shove, fakie bigflip, noseslide the cali table. I only got one fakie bigflip, couldn’t do heelflip instead so ended up giving up and doing halfcab flip instead. The noseslide on the table was not good, but it was still fun. I’m probably over venture lows again. Not sure what my next setup will be, but I doubt it will be a low truck of any brand

(setup 8.25 null burnout stumpy, jessup pj ultragrip, venture 5.2 lows royal bushings, bones 52mm slims 99a stf 2 washers inside, new balance numeric 440high b/w white size 12)
(pain level 3/10)

After a drive down from BV and several hours of frustrating calls for work I went to the school to “relax” and try the most difficult aspect of skateboarding – flip tricks. After some warmup I would get kickflip and fakie flip quickly, b/s flip and halfcab flip first try. Then nothing. Absolutely nothing. Luckily it started raining to put me out of my misery.

(setup 8.25 null burnout stumpy, jessup pj ultragrip, venture 5.2 lows royal bushings, bones 52mm slims 99a stf 2 washers inside, new balance numeric 272 green/white size 11.5 half insoles)
(pain level 4/10)

On a hot morning on the way to my moms we stopped at the Leadville park. Liz went for a walk. I swept the part with suck. I had worn my 440 highs in hopes of less pain than vulcs, but more board feel than the 288s. My warm up run took a bit. Ollie to fakie the bank at the entrance of the park, switch front 180 out of the bank, rock ‘n roll the bank to curb, kickflip to fakie the bank. Tried another line starting with a manual on the circle pad, but would never get a clean manual. I was hoping up it easily, but not balancing the manual. I struggled on the little ledge too. I was really upset, but had to remind myself that ledge has always been difficult for me even though it’s so low. At one point I attempted to throw my board into the concrete area near the park. I had told myself if it makes it over the fence I’d just leave it and be done. (Un)fortunately it bounced off the upright and didn’t make it in. After that I mellowed out and just hucked a little on a bank. First try kickflip. Somewhat close to fronstside halfcab heel.

(setup 8.25 null burnout stumpy, jessup pj ultragrip, venture 5.2 lows royal bushings, bones 52mm slims 99a stf 2 washers inside, new balance numeric 440 high b/w size 12)
(pain level 4/10 knee pain)