On a very hot afternoon we gathered at Valmont park. Not a lot of people out so the park was mostly chill for a while. Cass pretty quickly front shoved over the hip and front 5-0d the rainbow. Will was mostly in chill mode, but still had some really poppy ollies on hips and things and a pole jam or two. I kind of got obsessed with a line in the pond area. Axle stall, kickflip, rock ‘n roll, noseslide, kickflip fakie. Almost got it all. I was really struggling with my setup though, flailing all over the place and hating how small it felt. Tried some crooks on the bump to ledge and never got one. Dave showed and immediately did cool things like nollie shove tail and kickflip tail over the hip. Eric showed too and had some nice pole jams and wallies. I couldn’t get a front heel on the hip or bank. They were at least close. Cass had a nice b/s flip on the hip, close to bigspin, close to fs flip, maybe got a hardflip. I tried a line of kickflip on the lump bank then b/s flip over the hip but never got it. Actually slammed quite hard on the lump kickflips and it took it’s toll. Dave manualled the euro pad, then went on to nose manual it! Both with wallies after. He also got a switch bigspin over the hip. Amazing. Then we had fun talking skateboarding over a marg at Picas after.

(setup 0/10 null 8.25 time warp, jessup ultra, thunder 148 team hollows t2 bushings, spitfire f4 99a 52mm classic pink/green new balance numeric 600 size 12 black/gum half insole and currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 5/10)

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