After work the snow had dried up (yes I said “snow” and yes it was 90 the last time I skated and it was only 37 out). Jake and I met over on the side of the school with the good concrete and after a brief warm up went right into the first game. We started with a lot of 180s, shoves, no complies, etc. I was 0-3 on kickflips and Jake beat me to it. I barely held on to mine. He would get a fakie flip before me too and I double or nothing’d it and got two letters. I was bumming. The big wheels were feeling like big pop sponges. I would get a letter on halfcab flip too. But, I got a first try heelflip and you know what, Jake got a letter! Ha ha. This goes back to Sep 4 when he said I wouldn’t get another letter on him with heelflip. Ha ha. I forget what I went out on, maybe frontside flip. So we played another game with no repeats. We would take a while to land our tricks. I think I got him with switch shove revert, f\/s halfcab flip, fakie bigflip and something else to SKAT. He had me on a few, I matched varial flip, but he got me with fakie 3 shove even though I was close and a couple other tricks. I had SKA, but since he was at SKAT the treflip battle was on. We went at it for a long time. I would get a few that were worthy of redo, but not of setting the trick. Even two in a row at one point. So on a personal level I was kind of happy. Jake would land on a bunch of them bolts, but just wasn’t positioned right to stay on. I ended up getting one and Jake didn’t get it. I had taken Cass’s advice of staying more centered rather than being behind it and it really helped. It made for some different bails for me though as I wasn’t used to it. I cracked my board real good on one attempt too. But man it was fun battling for treflips. I so much wish Jake would have landed one too, back to back would have ruled. Get those heelflips too Jake!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(setup 8.38 null plant life deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.8 92 custom hollow baseplate, stock bushings, 54mm spitfire f4 99a radials red\/yellow swirl, new balance numeric 306 foy b\/w size 12, thin 533 insoles)
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