On a warm sunny day Rob and I rolled to Fossil and met up with Noè and Hayden. There was another kid there skating really close to us, but he meant well. Just made warming up kind of weird. No surprise, but I had changed things again to a setup I had once happily rocked for a long time. 8.25 with venture 5.8 and 51mm. It felt pretty poppy. We started on the top. Noè doing flippers down the 3, down the 6. It was awesome seeing him jump so much. It’s crazy how casually he can treflip the 3 stair. Hayden makes manuals look so easy. Even fakie ones. Rob was locking into nose manuals and took a pretty good slam on one. I had some front 50s on the curb, some intentional 5-0s, kickflip up the curb and made myself front 50 a tallish (for me) ledge before I could go down to the lower area. Saw Rob get a pretty speedy manual and Hayden get a back tail. Noè was trying switch back nose manuals with a backside curve that seemed impossible. I had a couple crooks, accidental 5-0s and front 50s on the low part of the main ledge, halfcab flip and b/s flip and ended with a sketchy ollie up the ledge.

(setup 7/10 8.25 pmg, venture v-cast/titanium 5.8 with royal bushings no bottom washer, 51mm bones stf pj v1 washers outside, new balance numeric 288 sport size 12 with nike sb dunk insoles)
(pain level 4/10)

Paul and I rolled to Golden park pretty early on a sunny Saturday. Near the park we honked at Bratcher and it was hilarious. He had no idea it was us. The park was mostly the various old guy crews. Bratcher, Jesse, Paul, Jake, Venture Dave, young Mike, Salty. It was sick. Some of us started in the little plaza area. Jake and I did boardslide the first bench then crooks the second. I was on round 2 of Mindys, this time forged, and hated every minute of it. I couldn’t get a treflip after. Paul rattled off lots of ledge tricks on the curb high ledge. Dave did his casual shoves and maybe a nose manual. Then Dave, Mike and I skated the mellow bank for a while which was really fun. Dave did some impossibles, got a couple switch front 3s, switch shove, fakie impossible. Mike did several heelflip variations while I did kickflips. I was hyped to get a frontside flip and b/s flip first try. I couldn’t get a varial or bigflip to save my life though. Was happy on the kickflip body varial even though it actually took me several tries. Nose slides the qp to ledge was way fun. Jesse did pop shove tail grab and varial flip on the kicker. Jake lived up to his end of the bargain of doing his line quickly by doing it first try. Didn’t see others skating much. Was hyped to get a quick Salty clip.

After a trip to Bluecar I met Sean at Brady. I was incredibly sore and decided I need to give up on the Dunks. I could barely skate. Managed a very slow uphill line of noseslide then boardslide. Also got noseslide to fakie and then on Sean’s woke board I managed a crooks in two tries. Sean rattled off some fun casual lines and 50’d the whole ledge. We filmed something else too, it was cool. Not sure I will ever be back there as the ledge is really tall but who knows.

(setup 2/10 8.25 pmg, jessup ultragrip, forged mindy 144s, spitfire 52mm f4 99a classic, nike sb sad dunks then 272s)
(pain level 5/10 at the park then 8/10 at brady)

After logging off work for two weeks I met up with Dave and he was at Valmont park. It was pretty chaotic over there, but fun for a while. Dave was having some good ollies over the hip, lined out a frontside wallie on the barrier hip that was amazing. I got run into by a kid on a strider bike that had no idea what was going on. There was this dude there who did an absolutely perfect switch treflip over the hip that was super inspiring. So I spent a while posing switch b/s flips over the hip that I swear feel doable. Dave tried some switch tres too and made them look possible.

Over to dog park Sean would show up. Dave was skating at a high level. Jumping, front 50s on the bench, manuals around the corner, front boards to fakie, no comply pole jam. I know I’m missing a lot. We jumped the grate gap pretty easily. Sean did Sean things super casual. It’s cray . It was a pretty crowded and heated session, lots of people skating hard. I was skating absolutely terrible then randomly turned everything around with one silly little noseslide to fakie up onto the manual pad that set me up perfectly for switch front nose off and I did it. Been wanting to do that line for months and it just randomly came first try out of nowhere. Stoked me out. Shortly after I was trying the crooks then kickflip line and needed some kodak courage and Sean was kind enough to film it. Right after that is when Dave did the no comply pole jam. Fun Friday.

(setup 3/10 8.25 pmg, jessup ultragrip, thunder hollow 148, 52mm spitfire 99a class f4, nike sb sad dunk nb 440 insoles)
(pain level 5/10)