Brought my daughter to work at 9:30 and had some time to kill before Rob was ready to head north so I went to dog park. It was quite nice out and I had the park to myself for the most part until a couple of the CU crowd joined, but they are cool. I skated alright. Got a front smith on the low ledge, front 50 180 out (I can’t believe I’ve gotten to the point where I actually am happy I did this it used to be such a warm up). Got a few tricks on the quick up manny pad to ledge like boardslide, crooks, front board. Never got a good manual though and couldn’t commit to 50 on the cinder benches. Jack B showed up, but I had to go. Got a front 50 shove on the c lurb that took way too many tries.

After hitting LOCO and MRKT Rob and I would meet up with Hayden, Noè at a heated Spring Canyon park. I say heated because there were dudes charging so hard. I would never get anything going and would leave so depressed about my skating. Rob charged it though, nose manuals right away, had a line of halfcab manual then nollie lip. Hayden is so fun to watch. You never really know what you’re gonna see. He learned a new trick, fakie front shove switch manual (I think). Noè was having an “off day” which means only a few 20 trick lines ha ha. The kickflips to fakie on the steeper part of the qp were stezy. I was super bummed that it marked the first session that I didn’t get the little rail boardslide first try. I was like 20-0 on that thing. Now I’m 20-1 and feel incredibly depressed about my skating.

(setup null 8.3 vhs, jessup ultragrip, royal 149 ultralights, bones stf pj 51mm v1, new balance numeric 440 brown size 12 half insole)
(pain level 3/10)

Let it warm up some then rolled to dog park. Well, I started at Valmont, did some pumping around and then forced myself to do 5 kickflips to fakie in a row on the bank. I would get 6 and it only took two tries. Then I went over to dog park and Jack B and Eric showed up around then too. We basically had the park to ourselves for a couple of hours and it was awesome. They were both charging. I was having a weird session where I would not land basic tricks, but get harder tricks first try. Like nollie back tail the bench (because Jack did it) and nollie back tail to fakie the c lurb. I also got first try halfcab noseslide which is rare these days and followed it with a goofy slow back 5-0 shove on the curb. Eric had heelflip over the parking block first try, crooks shove first try, front 180 the bench, front board shove, dude was shredding. Jack’s no comply over the metal bench then hippy jump was so good. I couldn’t commit to an ollie over it. We skated the barrier for a bit. Jack was doing really good fs ollies and ollies to fakie. Eric was close to back lip. Christian came by and shredded it. I got a totally not decked front rock. Then I went over to the skatepark again since some of the 303 dudes were there. Got a first try bigflip on the bank which hyped me up. Went back to the plaza and ran out of juice even though Eric and Jack were still charging and the park was quite crowded. The wind kicked in though and we bounced. Fun day, first couple hours with Jack and Eric were rad.

(setup null 8.3 vhs, jessup ultragrip, royal 149 ultralights, bones stf pj 51mm v1, new balance numeric 440 brown size 12 half insole)
(pain level 2/10)

Got out on a nice night. Rolled down the sidewalk to the underpass on a new setup that was fun. Did a couple brief ollies. Was wearing the 1010s really trying to make them work, but I hated them. Ended up at the covered downhill ledge and got in a few noseslides and a fun noseslide to fakie before the wind went nuts and I went home.

(setup null 8.3 vhs, jessup ultragrip, royal 149 ultralights, bones stf pj 51mm v1, new balance numeric 1010 white size 11.5 half 272 insole)
(pain level 4/10 knee pain from the 1010s kicked in pretty quick)