On a surprisingly nice evening I went downtown with the main goal of skating the newish ledge. I parked by it, did a couple of noseslides and moved on to get warmed up before coming back. Ended up at the nearby alley with the bolted red metal ledge. Did a line of 180 on the brick to concrete bump then switch front nose. Tried nollie front 180 to start. Totally did the splits right in front of some people. Somehow it didn’t hurt at all. I had a setup change which may have contributed to the problems. 8.3 with slace. Mostly disliked it. Did get some nollie 180s and tried to follow with halfcab nose, but the darkness was too weird. Went over to WF and had some fun on the qp. Although the front pivot fakie took way too long and gave me a hot pocket as I kept slipping off the griptape. Went to the ledge, had some fun noseslides. Took too long to get a crooks and was reminded how little I like ace/slace. So yeah, not the best night didn’t do a single flip trick. But street skating is always at least a little rewarding.

(setup 3/10 8.3 keyhole 2, cheap pepper grip, slace 8.5, 50mm tablets, converse fastbreaks grey size 12 half insole and currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 6/10)

On a beautiful morning I stopped by Boulder park on the way into work. There was a few youth skating/scooting, but would leave shortly to go to school. I had an okay start. Was really bummed to ghost pop some ollies to fakie. Pretty early on I almost did a front 50 shove first try. So I set up the phone and of course could not longer front 50. Got so mad, depressed, sore.

(setup 2/10 8.25 null kaleidoscape, pepper cheap not so good grip, venture 5.6 v.8 hollow hangers ace bushings, 50mm spitfire f4 101a tablets, converse fastbreaks grey size 12 with half insole and currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 5/10 foot/knees from the converse)

On a cool night with rain threatening I went to Square State. Kyle, Nick and Brian were there skating. Justin and Will would arrive after a while. I did my warm up wallie nollie over the kicker. Got a kickflip up the euro which felt really fun. Then pretty much spent the rest of the session trying that silly line which I did get, but not on wax. I’m not sure why the kickflip was so hard to pop up 6″. I was happy to get a front slash on the tall qp though which I have never done before. Justin ripped the park. Was good to see he was human and took a few tries to do a 5-0 to fakie on the tall qp. The nosegrind was so perfect. Will had a nice back 50 then went in on switch flips up the euro. He got close a couple times, but that is not an easy approach switch.

(setup 5/10 8.25 null kaleidoscape, pepper cheap not so good grip, venture 5.6 v.8 hollow hangers ace bushings, 50mm spitfire f4 101a tablets, converse fastbreaks grey size 12 with half insole and currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 5/10 right foot is still bad)