Another hot day. Waited until after a light dinner to go skating. Went to this bank I had never skated before and only saw from the road. It was much mellower than it looked from the road. Also, it was kind of perfect as far as no real cracks or anything. I started out so bad. I was wearing my old 430s as I didn’t want to deal with the 600s again or vulc pain. But I don’t think the shoes had anything to do with it. Turns out my front kingpin nut was falling off so I could only hand tighten it and it felt so incredibly loose. It took me a bit to get a shove, fakie bigspin was easy, front shove was easy. Kickflip was a battle and I was close to losing my mind. Fakie bigflip was 3rd try though, b/s flip was under 10 tries. I debated treflips for a bit then went in on them. 50 tries later I left with my tail between my legs, so incredibly depressed that I can’t seem to treflip anymore.

As I went back to my car I noticed this crazy ledge spot. It was getting dark at this point, somehow the photo makes it look light out. It wasn’t. I managed a few noseslides on the second to lowest level. I tried to drop down to the level below and kind of did a few times. Can’t say it was enough to cheer me up though.

(setup 1/10 8.3 null flaherty, jessup ultragrip pj, indy 149 forged hollow knox, 52mm spitfire f4 99a pink/green swirl classic, new balance numeric 600 b/w size 12 half insole and currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 5/10)

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