After work I met Dave at Valmont park on a cool, but nice afternoon. The park wasn’t too crowded. Dave was already there finding new ways to skate it. I had worn different shoes, vans wayvees with custom orthotic insoles. They actually felt really good and I think the heel lift in the NB 600s was contributing to my pain. I tried to do some manuals across the pyramid but got scared of the speed, ghost popped a lot of ollies over the hip and the new hip. Dave had some really good ollies over the hips. He did a line of ride off the wedge then come around and a super solid f/s halfcab over the hip. I did kickflip to fakie and the crappy b/s flip shown above. But man it felt good actually and I was happy to be able to try them. Dave had a banger line of f/s ollie the hip, kickflip over the hip. Also the amazing grind off the wedge to wallie into the bank. Some f/s grinds on the volcano then nose manual on the pyramid. He had to leave. I did a couple grinds in the pond then called it a day after almost dying on one.

(setup 7/10 generator 8.5 14.25, jessup ultra, venture 5.8 titanium bones medium bushings, bones 52mm v1 stf, vans wayvee white size 12 custom orthotics)
(pain level 5/10)

Feeling very depressed about how swollen my knee is I decided to go to Silver Session at Square House. I was kind of going insane and felt like being around skateboarding would at least feel good even if I wasn’t able to skate much. Nick was there and we hit the new small section that is really fun. I had some fun nollie tails on the bank to curb. We hit the ramp for a bit. Man I had zero confidence and even my axle stalls felt scary. I would go on to get some okay longer back 50s, some rock ‘n rolls and front slashes. Nick had a rad line with rock ‘n roll and shove to fakie. Then in the main area I tried a line of wallride nollie out of the bump, rock ‘n roll the tiny qp and then noseslide down the hubba. Never got the noseslide, but I was close and I didn’t want to push the knee to much. Austin was there ripping everything. Jason with some good tech. Gray had a sick slappy to feeble the bump to china bank. I ended with a front smith and a front tail on the small bank to curb. Really glad I went skating, fun spot, crew, etc.

(setup 6/10 generator 8.5 14.25, jessup ultra, venture 5.8 titanium bones medium bushings, bones 52mm v1 stf, new balance numeric 600 knox black/gum size 12 currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 7/10)