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)

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