After a somewhat late night of partying I woke up early (8am) at the shop. \u00a0The forecast was rain for the day, but it was dry. \u00a0Skate! \u00a0Nate and Neil woke up too and we were out by 8:30 to Eagle Donuts then hit the streets by 9. \u00a0We cruised down the mellow hills and ended up near the Potrero skatepark so we just continued on and went there. Those hills near the shop are SO fun. \u00a0I was still hurting when I pushed though and it was bumming me out. \u00a0There were a few people at the skatepark, but not many. \u00a0Neil was ripping pretty quickly. \u00a0He had some cool lines going with lots of little ollies and good speed. \u00a0It’s hard to remember this as it’s 5 days later and we partied every night. \u00a0I know Nate did a rad lipslide across the box on the mellow bank. \u00a0I did a couple first try tricks on the super mellow q-pipe. \u00a0Front D and b\/s nose grind kinda. \u00a0At some point I started trying wallies out of the bank to ledge to manual to the little q-pipe. \u00a0Never quite got it. \u00a0But it was cool to see it took Brian Anderson a couple tries to do the same trick a couple days later. Then I started trying Neil’s line of carve on the huge bank, b\/s 50 on the q-pipe, ollie on the twinkie, tailslide on the bank. \u00a0I never really got an ollie. \u00a0Partly because I suck at ollies, partly because there seemed to be someone coming everytime I was near the twinkie. \u00a0It took both Nate and I a long time to do our first kickflips. \u00a0I got an undercrook on the ledge. \u00a0Ha, it’s my patented 2″ jib crook. \u00a0Neil started doing tricks up the euro. \u00a0Kickflip, one foot, b\/s 180, no comply. \u00a0Ripping. \u00a0Nate and I tried tricks on the tight brick q-pipe. \u00a0Nate got a rock ‘n roll and a scratch grind. \u00a0As I went for an axle stall I said to Nate, “If I land this one it wont rain the entire trip”. \u00a0Landed it. \u00a0Hyped. \u00a0Unfortunately it didn’t quite hold true. \u00a0After a few hours we got a call from Lazer saying they were ready to skate. \u00a0Back to Eagle Donuts for breakfast #2 and meet up with the crew.After the best bagel sandwiches in the world and new Trick Factory calendars from Brian we hit the streets. \u00a0We started around the corner by the shop. \u00a0Everyone was kinda messing around. \u00a0I still felt awkward on my skateboard and pushing hurt. \u00a0Ugh. \u00a0I managed a couple runs I wanted to do since last time. \u00a0Kickflip up the curb, cruise down. \u00a0Front 180 up the curb, sw 180 off the little drop. \u00a0We worked our way up the hill a bit and bombed into the corner. \u00a0Nate, Fuzz and Neil were hauling ass. \u00a0Then we rolled toward the flower shop by way of lots of hiking up hills, skating down them, hiking up other, skating down. \u00a0SO FUN. \u00a0I was foot dragging alot instead of power sliding, but at least going pretty fast for me. \u00a0We fanned out at the Omar Salazar noseblunt ledge. \u00a0We ended up on top of the hill by the flower shop and Gordon offered me $10 to bomb the hill with no foot drag. \u00a0I went for it. \u00a0I was going quite a bit faster than I thought because at the end I did a foot drag to stop but it wasn’t enough and I ran into a fence. \u00a0It was maybe my favorite moment of the trip though. \u00a0Even though I didn’t slide out at the end it still felt awesome to bomb an entire hill and only foot drag at the end. \u00a0The rest of the crew came flying down and everyone was hauling ass. \u00a0So awesome. \u00a0People were flying. I didn’t get the $10 because of the foot drag at the end, but whatever I had fun.The Flowershop was locked so we skated the ledge area for awhile. \u00a0I was hurting. \u00a0So sore and tired. \u00a0Ugh. \u00a0We skated the gap area. \u00a0I did a little run with an ollie over a flat gap then a super slow ollie over the gap where I landed not moving at all. \u00a0Fuzz and I laughed a good minute over that. \u00a0Carleigh ollied it first try then landed on pop shove first try. \u00a0She beat herself up for awhile and never quite landed it. \u00a0Lazer ripped it with an ollie over the last flat gap to manual pop over the gap. \u00a0Sick. \u00a0Fuzz did some cool ollies up the ledge then front 180 the flat gap then switch ollie the gap. \u00a0Nate had a good clean ollie over it too. \u00a0Next we skated the actual ledges. \u00a0Fuzz did a sick line with all the basics. \u00a0Front 50, front 5-0, front tail and the worst halfcab flip ever done. \u00a0Brian got his tallest front 50. \u00a0Nate did some nollie front tails and some basics. \u00a0I was bumming out and sad that my body was so sore already and unable to ollie well. \u00a0I got a couple front 50s, but that was about it.Next we skated the Flowershop tranny spot. \u00a0I sat out the first part of the session just trying to catch my breath and get some energy. \u00a0Everyone was ripping. \u00a0A couple other dudes were there ripping too. \u00a0Gordon did some crazy stuff. \u00a0He skates that park so well. \u00a0He got a new trick for himself there on top of all his sickness – it was either a fakie D on the big wall or a frontside grind. \u00a0I’m not sure. \u00a0Fuzz was cruizing around fast, Neil was flying around and ollie’ing into tranny the way only he could, Brian almost got front rocks on the extension, Lazer skates tranny good, Nate was having fun too and landed a grind on one of the vert walls as we were leaving. \u00a0Fun session. \u00a0After all that skating we hiked more hills\/skated down them, etc back to the shop. \u00a0Party time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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