On a beautiful fall day I dashed out shortly before sunset to get some skating in after completing a rough draft of Something. I got in my car and started driving towards Southern Hills but ended up here instead. It has some random stuff and it was kind of fun. I just pushed around the school a bit then started lining out some stuff the way I do. Had a fun gap to axle, ollied up a curb a few times to try and do a backside flip on a micro hip, had a few basic flippers, couldn’t ollie onto the weird ledge in the back. It was hard to focus on skating through, everything felt surreal, like I should be editing my skating rather than actually skating. Hard to explain, only those that have made a skate video would probably understand. I really did hate the 440s the last two days.

(setup 8.1″ null all you need deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.6 v-hollows cast plate royal bushings no big washer flat top washer, 52mm spitfire f4 99a classic shape, new balance 440 black 11.5 no insoles)
(pain level probably something like 3/10)

After doing some editing in the morning I met up with Jake, Cass, Rob, Hayden, Bo at Valmont / dog park. We started at Valmont. Jake did pole jam. Cass and I did frontside flips. One of mine might have even turned a whole 90 degrees. The riff raff was out of control. A lady was taking a phone call from the ledge, strider kids in moto cross helmets. I did the little line of ollie the euro, manual the volcano, back 50 the high to low qp.

So we didn’t last too long and went over to dog park. Rob had gone over there earlier and was totally shredding. I think it’s some of the best he’s skated in recent history. Nose manual front 180s around the C ledge, nollie front lip the low flat bar, halfcab 50s, big pops off the philly kicker. Jake was ripping too I saw lines with nollie back tails, front boards, back 50s. Cass with the casual front noseslides, 50s, back 180 50s. Jake, Cass and I played a game of SKATE. Well, Cass and I started and I got a letter on front shove or something and then Jake came so we reset. It was a good game, one of my better ones in a while. Cass did a first try treflip and I got his back. It made me so happy. Like one barely moving flip trick was all I need to make me so happy. I would go on to get halfcab flip, heelflip and a few more and somehow win the game. Hayden and Bo had shown up. Bo was unable to get the nose manual on the table. Bo, Hayden and I tried flip tricks off the mellow kicker. Hayden got switch heel, Bo was close to switch varial heel, I was close to backside flip. A lot more went down, but I forget as it was all erased when I got home and went into another editing marathon.

(setup 8.1″ null all you need deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.6 v-hollows cast plate royal bushings no big washer flat top washer, 52mm spitfire f4 99a classic shape, new balance 440 black 11.5 no insoles)
(pain level probably something like 4/10)

I had about an hour after work and before Nullers were going to show up to work on Something. So I hit up Noè and asked for a 10×10 list. This is what he gave me:

Nollie tre, bigflip, switch flip, switch frontside flip, nollie back heel, fakie tre, fakie bigger flip, backside flip, varial kickflip, nollie heel flip

YIKES! I should also mention it was cold, down in the 40s. But it felt good. I warmed up and got a few kickflips before I started the list. I didn’t do the tricks in that order, but I did huck a couple like switch flip and nollie heel at the start to get warmed up. I would only get backside flip, varial flip and fakie bigflip. But I was close to the other ones I’ve done before like nollie tre, fakie tre. Honestly every trick felt somewhat doable, bigflips especially. Felt good to skate a little.

(setup 8.1″ null all you need deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.6 v-hollows cast plate royal bushings no big washer flat top washer, 52mm spitfire f4 99a classic shape, new balance 440 black 11.5 no insoles)
(pain level probably something like 3/10)

I’m writing this after several days of editing Something and remember basically nothing about it. I know I didn’t have the will to pull out my big board again so I was on my little 8.1″ board and it felt small, but awesome. The kicker had been raised and some dude kickflipped the picnic table so casually. He would also hardflip it. I don’t think I did much other than some slow flip tricks. I think Fergs was there too bringing the fun. Rob said he did nollie front lip on the little flat bar which he hadn’t done there before. I’m sure he was killing manuals and nose manuals and back 50s too.

(setup 8.1″ null all you need deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.6 v-hollows royal bushings no big washer flat top washer, 52mm spitfire f4 99a classic shape, new balance 440 black 11.5 no insoles)
(pain level probably something like 3/10)