After work on a hot evening I picked up Paul and Jesse and we went to an almost empty Frederick park. There was only one kid on a bike, but that didn’t stop him from constantly being in the way. The park did fill up a bit around sunset, but as always chill. I started on my 8.25 and went on to suck it up. Took like 5 tries to get a kickflip to fakie on the mellow bank. We had met Cass there. We tried 5 warm up tricks on the mellow bank. Took me forever and b/s kickflip was even hard. Jesse did bigflip before kickflip and really struggled with kickflip. It was funny. Paul was shredding the park pretty quickly even having never been there before. He would go on to do the big wallride over the pyramid and several grinds on the little pad. Cass couldn’t get a front nose on the bump to ledge which means it was an off night. I couldn’t get up the ledge to save my life. Tried on both setups. Was bumming pretty hard on everything. At the end we skated each others boards. And wouldn’t you know it I ollied up the ledge first try on Paul’s board and got a 270 flip in a few tries. Argh. More madness to come. His board was 8.25/ace/53mm. It felt really good.

(setup 8.25 ventures / 8.3 royals, new balance numeric 440s white size 12 no insoles)
(pain level 6/10 just lots of pain argh)

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