First morning below freezing of the season. After a couple meetings I stopped by Boulder park on the way in for a short session. I wore Strike MVMNT shoes because of all the praise Tom Asta has been giving them. This time however, I went with no insoles. And I liked them. I had some motivation and skated pretty hard. After some normal goofing around for warm up I had a good warm up run of noseslide the bench, kickflip to fakie the hump, turn around then a kickflip on the hump then a sketchy ollie onto the bench before bailing a flatground kickflip. Smaller lower setup felt good on the qp, good on the hump to ledge, not good popping onto stuff. Didn’t quite get the line of front 50s although did them all individually. Not remembering much else. It was fun, the park has really grown on me.

After work I stopped at dog park. It was another somewhat heated session. I somehow felt pretty good even though I skated earlier. I got mad when I didn’t immediately start landing kickflips or halfcab flips again. At one point I had a funny experience with a college kid. He saw me get somewhat close to kickflip 50 on the lurb. He was hyped and I said something like “I used to actually land this”. He was like “Well I’ve never landed it” and we laughed trying to figure out which was worse. I struggled with 50s, struggled to pop. Crooks were okay. All in all an alright session.

(setup 4/10 8.25 null time warp, jessup ultra, thunder 148 team hollow t-ii bushings, spitfire 51mm 99a f4 classic, strike mvmnt street transit trainer black/gum size 12 no insoles)
(pain level 4/10)

After rain and then a cold wind I cleaned out the garage then skated flatground for an hour. I had a smaller setup. 8.25 with Thunders. It felt nice at first, but I took like 8 tries to get a kickflip. Oh yeah, I had new shoes too, Es Accel Slims. They suck. I mean they are grippy at least, but so incredibly thin and the toebox is way too narrow. Got a fakie flip in a couple tries. Halfcab flip took a while and almost drove me crazy. B/s flip wasn’t too bad. Couldn’t get nollie varial flip or heelflip. Then went in on treflip and never landed one. I was quite close though. Oh yeah, before treflips I did a couple varial flip reverts that were not good at all. Man my flatground is so bad now.

(setup 4/10 8.25 null time warp, jessup ultra, thunder team hollow 148 t-ii bushings, old spitfire f4 99a 51mm classics, es accel slim b/w size 12 with footprints gamechanger insoles)
(pain level 6/10)