On a very cold night I had arranged a private session at Square House. The crew ended up being Dave, Mike, Jess, Jack B and me. Jack and I got there first. It was cool being able to just slowly skate the middle of the park without being in anyones way. But it was clear right away that my knee did not feel good at all. As others showed and warmed up I was in a very dark place about my knee and skating. Had I not been the one responsible for locking up I would have left and perhaps left my skateboard behind for good. But I’m incredibly stubborn and tried to feed off the fun my friends were having. Dave was shredding quickly and did a wallie from the parking block over the euro. Pretty unreal. Jesse quickly did varial flip, halfcab and then fakie ollie up the euro. The fakie ollie was nuts. The park seemed extra slippery and I think everyone had some odd slams. Dave slammed dropping in once hitting something right as he got to flat and it looked like a pretty bad slam. Jack had some good ollies over the bump, back 50s the bank to curb, pop shoves to fakie on the bank even though I somehow missed most of it filming. Mike with a lot of wallride variations on the china bank. I went in on the kickflip to fakie from “high” to low which took me way too long and I almost lost my mind. When I did finally land it I got a fakie bigflip after which brought a brief smile to my face. I had also kickflipped up the euro and a couple noseslides on the bump to ledge. Dave kickflipped up it too and followed it up with a front board transfer into the china bank that was my fav trick of the session. Mike had back 180s up the euro, no comply up it, lots of back 50s the bank to curb. Jack got a bunch of front tails on the tiny qp and even a crail on it. I took too long to do back 50 to fakie and one front tail. Jesse and Dave were going for back 50 and back feeble the bank to curb (respectively) from high to low. I don’t think Jesse got it, but Dave did as the session came to an end. Pretty amazing crew and thank you Brian for allowing us to skate. I hope I didn’t come off as too much of a whiny baby, but man this knee thing really as me down.

(setup 1/10 8.25 pmg, jessup ultragrip, royal 144 hollow kingpin, bones stf v1 pj 103a, es swift b/w size 12 with spenco 3/4 orthotic insoles)
(pain level 8/10)

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