I’ve had a lot of busy weekends lately, so it was nice to not have anything lined up for the day. Around 11 I set out without any real plans in mind. I drove to a school in north Boulder (Foothills) as I hadn’t been there in years. It still wasn’t great, but I saw some options for Dave and I ollied a two stair to get the juices flowing. Then I went to Crestview and discovered the freshly painted curb that was so good. I could do real frontside slappies and it was fun. I did a warm up line of slappy, ollie up a curb, axle stall a dry curb, front 180 down a two stair. Then I went to the metal bench area and was humbled by how hard they were. I couldn’t get a line of front 180 up then sw noseslide 270 shove. I don’t know why the shove would not work. The kickflips up took me a bit, but I would get quite a few eventually. Not sure why I couldn’t front board after, but the little scrape was all I had. I then ended up at the basketball court. I went right past the skatepark. One dude was skating it and popping some ollies over a hip. Another was practicing ollies in the grass in full pads. I proceeded to not feel good on my board at all. Managed some noseslides and little crooks, one front axle stall that took a long time and I barely got up there. Couldn’t do any flip tricks to save my life. Had a setup change of 8.25 and slappy lows, it was okay. I just don’t land anything anymore. With that said, I still had fun getting out and skating different spots.

(setup 3/10 8.25 slappy low profile 52mm splay rev b/w size 12 272 and currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 6/10 initially the splays felt great, but by the end I was soooooo sore)

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