skate journal: short wilville with dave (may 25, 2023)

With Neil coming in a couple days I felt I had to test out the calf to see what my body was capable of. With rain threatening I went to Wilville as I was feeling a strong lack of confidence and anxiousness about my calf pain. Setting my board down felt good though and I went on to have some fun. Had a few really slow kickflips, fakie flips, didn’t really get beyond that on flippers but for some reason felt like nollie b/s flips were possible (never got close to one). Dave showed and we both kind of played with manuals into the bank to start lines. Dave would actually get some manuals though, I never made it to the bank. He lined it out with a nollie shove fakie on the bank then switch 180 off. I had done a line I really liked of kickflip, manual, 180, switch nose shove, shove. Also had some fun slappy crooks and boardslides. Nollie tails both ways were fun. Didn’t want to try any front 50s as that was the trick that hurt me the last two times. Was really happy to skate and not get hurt.

(setup 3/10 null 8.3 pmg, jessup ultragrip, thunder team hollow 149 no big washer, 51mm bones stf v1 pj, new balance numeric 288sport green/gum size 11.5 no insoles)
(pain level 3/10)