On a really nice day Kevin and I chilled at 303 for a bit then rolled into campus. I got some titanium 144s to hopefully finally have a perfect setup (no chance whatsoever). First spot was the little flower pot triangle ledge. I had tried a line of kickflip up the curb then curve around and crooks, but the kickflip wasn’t happening. Then we went to the downhill ledge. I took a while just to be able to noseslide it from the top of the “hill”. We got to the point where we did tricks into the “hill” and then ledge tricks. Kevin halfcab flip and then crooks was sick. He also tried switch flip then switch front nose, but the speed was too much. We wanted to get a student to walk up halfway so he could have the excuse of having to slow down around a student, but we didn’t. Would have been funny. I took a while to get varial flop in and halfcab flip. But once I calibrated the huge floppy shoes and new smallerish setup I had a few in a row that felt very good. Then to the slope to steps spot. I took too long to do front tail shove then front shove. Kevin took less long to do the blunt then kickflip. Last spot was the tiny bank that I didn’t really skate. Kevin did nollie and switch flip easily. Fun session.

(setup 6/10 8.25 null flaherty, forged titanium indy 144 with royal bushings, 52mm spitfire f4 99a orange/black swirl classic, last resort grey cm002 size 12 (way too big) with footprint gamechanger insoles)
(pain level 5/10)

On a very warm Saturday Rob, Dave, Paul and I rolled up to Evergreen for a birthday tradition. We met up with Salty, Bratcher, Miller and Jake (still unable to skate). Great crew. We filmed almost nothing which was kind of nice. Bratcher had a migraine and didn’t really skate. Salty had some cool grind reverts on the qp and went for some fast boardslides on the ledge. Paul was the youngest and it showed popping onto the ledges with ease. Front 50 down the slight hubba looked fun, back 5-0s, front nosegrind the fence ledge, windshield wiper on the qp. Rob manuals, crails, front board pop out, back 50s, front slash the qp. I was skating decent and starting a line with kickflip over the hip but totally broke my board. Doh. Luckily I had a used one in the car that was somehow actually in better shape. I don’t know if I quite got back into the groove after that. But I would get a bad b/s flip over the hip, first t fakie bigspin over it. I had a bunch of crooks, noseslides on the fence ledge, a few slow front 50s. One thing I actually liked the most was kickflip up the curb then noseslide the out ledge. Had some fun 180 nose manuals from the wedge to the hip deck. I ended trying slow treflips and eventually got a very sorry excuse of a treflip. Dave lasted the longest of course and was shredding. Lots of kickflips over the f/s hip, b/s flips over it, pivot the steep qp, bump to nose manual the wedge to hip deck, front 50s the bump to ledge, showed up Paul with a layback grind to tail, back 3 over the hip, ended on a varial flip that took a bit. Fun session, great crew, fun park, great weather, good margs after.

(setup 5/10 8.25 null keyhole, forged hollow indy 149 with royal bushings, 52mm spitfire f4 99a orange/black swirl classic, last resort grey cm002 size 12 (way too big) with footprint gamechanger insoles)
(pain level 4/10)

I took a half day and on a warm afternoon picked up Bratcher and rolled to Windsor park. We met Hayden and Will and we basically had the park to ourselves until the end save for an e-motorbike. Ended up being a pretty fun session. Bratcher lots of tricks on the curb height ledge, ollied up the euro, front 50 the taller ledge. Hayden is so fun to watch. Such casual manuals, back tails, crooks, nosegrinds. Filmed an amazing line of him 50’ing the double set curb, crooks off the bank to ledge then a super lofty b/s ollie the qp hip. Will skated the tall ledge with ease. Front smith on the bank to ledge was amazing. First try pop shove up the euro. I had a couple of lines I liked, but I struggled in my oversized shoes. Warm up line above was about as good as I did all day. Crooks, noseslide to fakie, halfcab noseslide. Later on I would get a crooks on the lower ledge, flatground heelflip, front 180 the euro. Other than those nothing really stands out as noteworthy from me. Fun session, good crew.

(setup 3/10 8.25 null keyhole, cast hollow 144 mindys, 52mm spitfire f4 99a orange/black swirl classic, last resort grey cm002 size 12 (way too big) with footprint gamechanger insoles)
(pain level 4/10)