Went to dog park around 10. Bratcher, Jesse, Gordon, Paul were there. I hadn’t bothered putting a new 8.25 together, so I was stuck with the 8.3 T2 setup which I completely disliked. I had very little juice. Jack got hurt pretty bad on a boardstall gone wrong. Jesse left. Paul and Gordon ripped some cool combos on the two step. I think Paul did noseslide up noseslide down. Gordon pop shove up, boardslide off. I tried noseslide to fakie then sw front nose and didn’t get too close. After a while I just gave up and resigned myself to trying nollie front tail front shove which I eventually did and was hyped.

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The Nebraska dudes finally showed, but it started raining. Some time later we said we were going to leave so that meant everyone skated harder for another 15 min or so. Lee sw front nosed the tall bar and front 50d the table. I did some of my easiest basics then tried to no comply flip a parking block and couldn’t do it. The young kids adapted and quickly landed their tricks.

Then we went to Willville after some lunch and rain. There was another crew there from Houston which was rad. They were charging. David killed it. I tried some switch 180 manuals, but was not very close.

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After jumping into Boulder creek we ended up at the bank spot out on Arapahoe. It was mostly chill. I did some axle stall and failed to no comply to tail or back pivot. David had a nice backside flip. Cooper a cool beanplant. Long day! Super fun.

(setup 2/10 null 8.3, jessup ultra, thunder T2 149, 52mm spitfire f4 orange/black 99a classic, new balance numeric 430 b/w size 12 half insole and currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 5/10)

After work and a long afternoon nap I went under the shady trees across the street to skate some flatground. Nate had armed me with a 10×10 list, but I ended up not really sticking to it. I remember taking a few tries to kickflip which was the start of my demise. I guess halfcab flip and b/s flip felt good, but heelflip came around and I could not do it to save my life. I don’t know what it is about Thunders, but I cannot land heelflips with them. To make matters worse I went in on treflips after that. Never got both feet on one. Was super frustrated. Was close to nollie flips at least. Left at peace but slammed on a kickflip on the new street on the way home and focused my old board. Wah.

(setup 3/10 null 8.25 time warp, null grip, thunder team hollow 148, 51mm spitfire f4 101a classic, new balance numeric 430 b/w size 12 half insole and currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 4/10)