Tried to dawn patrol it since this time of year is so hard to skate in daylight. Got to Boulder park around 7 and proceeded to totally suck it up. I could not wake up to save my life. My setup change felt beyond terrible. 8.3, thunder team hollow, 53mms. I tried for about 30 minutes, but at no point was I happy with anything so I left.

Got out of work with a little daylight left and went to dog park. Had a kinda random session in which I came close to hard stuff, but really I didn’t land much. Had 8.25 with slappy lights. It was way better than my last two setups, but I still didn’t like it. I will say that I really did like the 8.25 at least. I had success with crooks and halfcab flips. Was kind of all over and then went in on a random line for a bit. Front slash the barrier, front board to fakie the little concrete bars, halfcab flip. I got one really bad front board to fakie, but there was a crew of dudes learning kickflips and I kept getting in their way. Tried a lot of noseslide 270 shoves that were not close. Hucked kickflip 50s which I didn’t commit to. Then it got dark.

(setup 1 8.3 thunder team 53mm 0/10
setup 2 8.25 slappy lights 52mm 4/10)
(pain level 5/10)

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