Met Dave around 1 at Frederick on a sunny Saturday. There was no snow there so the park was totally dry. Warming up felt alright, just cruising around popping little ollies and stuff. I avoided the bank to curb area for a while because a couple guys were trying the bump to bar and slamming so hard. Seriously not sure how one dude avoided broken ribs and the other came so close to hitting his head. Dave was doing some amazing slappy crooks totally posted up through the corner. Some were going to back lip and he’d land those too. He had some really good lines with tricks like front pivot on the bank to curb, fakie shove the steeper bank, switch front 3 the hump. He also did an amazing bluntslide shove and at the end switch front 3 the actual hip. I had been trying a line that morphed around a bit. Initially started with fakie flips on the mellow bank, but I started not landing them and it was just frustrating. Then I went slappy on the bank to curb, noseslide the bump to ledge, crappy kickflip on the steeper bank. In between tries hucked some fakie bigflips over the pyramid and got a sloppy one. Still hyped me up though. Was able to ollie onto the pad pretty easily, but kickflip off didn’t feel good at all and I didn’t even commit. Near the end I tried crooks on the curved ledge over the lower pad. They were way harder than I thought they would be. I managed a few short ones, but never got a good posted up one. Hopefully I can work up to it eventually. Fun session, a lot more happened and we tried and did some new stuff so that is all we can ask for.

(setup 4/10 null hayden 8.3, jessup ultra, thunder hollow lite 149 with t-ii bushings, 51mm spitfire radial 99a green, splay rev s-series black size 12 with remind cush insoles)
(pain level 4/10)

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