On a very got GSD I went to York park where I would meet Joe, Keegan and Ben, but Ben couldn’t skate. After feeling out the new obstacles Keegan, Joe and I played a game of SKATE on the flat bank. I was the first out getting letters on tricks like fakie flip and pop shove. Geez. After that I did the kickflip to fakie and fakie smith line. I wanted to do fakie pivot to fakie, but getting the right angle to the qp was much harder than it looks. Joe and Keegan boardslid the new S bar. Then Joe did the front smith then front shove. I had a line of crooks the ledge by the halfpipe, nollie back tail the low part of the ledge, then noseslide to fakie the bank to ledge. I enjoyed getting the crooks too even if it took a while. I was still really sick, so that was basically the end of skating for me and it was well into the 90s compounding the deliriousness. Joe did the b/s flip over the hip and we called it a day and left for mexican food. Fun session, wish I would have had more energy.

(setup 5/10 8.3 null time warp, jessup ultragrip, royal 149 ultralights with ace hard bushings, 52mm spitfire f4 99a class orange/black, last resort cm002 brown size 11.5 with currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 5/10 achy)

Felt really sick.  It was very hot and windy.  Had some okay warm up though just doing some weird stuff.  Then I did a fakie bigflip over the hip.  A line of crook, kickflip behind the bowl, front 180 off the little drop.  Tried to noseslide over the weird bridge.   Almost died trying to ollie the kicker gap.   Tried to get on the ledge more but I was too hot and tired.  Wonder if I’ll ever skate this park again? I hope so.

(setup 3/10 8.3 null time warp, jessup ultragrip, royal 149 ultralights with ace hard bushings, 52mm spitfire f4 99a class orange/black, last resort cm002 brown size 11.5 with currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 4/10 felt kind of run down)

It’s never fun to get sick on vacation. I felt run down, but wanted to skate because I’m Stubborn and I may never get to hit that park again. The little ledge was just so motivating. But man I felt bad on my board when I started. I started at the top with lofty ambitions of a line down into the lower area. But I  couldn’t shove or kickflip reliably.  Kids walking by asked me to kickflip even after I did one.  Eventually I got fakie bigflip then nollie big on the weird bank at the top of the snake run then a noseslide to fakie on the ledge.  Another line was crooks, axle stall the bowl, front 50 the ledge.  Then it was basically ledge time as lines were killing me with how run down I felt.   Would end up getting over 20 tricks.  Crooks shove was the highlight. I did a better crooks shove before filming followed by a better sw noseslide 270 shove.  I took way too long to get a back 50.  Didn’t get to any flip in attempts, front nosegrinds or intentional 5-0s. Oh well. It was pretty fun even if I felt delirious from the heat, hunger and sickness.

(setup 4/10 8.3 null time warp, jessup ultragrip, royal 149 ultralights with ace hard bushings, 52mm spitfire f4 99a class orange/black, last resort cm002 brown size 11.5 with currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 3/10)

Mid day on the first full day of vacation I had some time to get out and skate. A quick drive got me to this weird park in Central City Nebraska. I have skated there once before. It is still weird, but last time I hadn’t really hit the mellow hips it seemed. After some warming up and cruising around I wanted to do a b/s flip first since it seemed like it could rain any minute. It only took a few tries and it felt awesome. After that I probably did a bunch of crooks because they were so fun on the little ledge. I would go on to get a lot of my ledge tricks, but nothing rare. The regular kickflip over the hip took me a while. Last thing I did was some axle stalls on the bigger qp then some ollies over the steep hip which were kind of scary. Then it was back to swimming in the lake before a lot of rain.

(setup 5/10 8.3 null time warp, jessup ultragrip, royal 149 ultralights with ace hard bushings, 52mm spitfire f4 99a class orange/black, last resort cm002 brown size 11.5 with currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 4/10 felt kind of run down)