 I'm out at La Puente Skate Park right now. I'm just trying to stretch out my ankle. I figured if I stretch it out before skating, it doesn't hurt so much on the session. My bad ankle, that is. But yeah, Dan's here, Haley's here. You wanna hear a funny story about this park? Yes. This was the first park that I skated when I met up with the power dudes. Because Deville was like, hey, when I come skate this park, it's not open yet, but we're getting a VIP skate session in before it was open because of Mikey. Who's been that day? You weren't here? I was there earlier in the day. Were you? Okay, yeah, yeah. So we came here and skated and that's when I met everybody. So you were here earlier? I was here earlier and then I met you at the flat bar like a couple days later. That's right. I met Dale and the first day I came in and skated with everybody. I was too shy to skate or even make a video. Like, I couldn't skate, I couldn't land anything. And like I had my camera and I had everything ready to make a video here at this sick park. And I just couldn't do it because I was too shy. Now it is now. Ha ha ha ha. So if anybody is looking for an update on the ACE trucks, they're good. I've just been having to tighten them a little bit each session. I guess the bushings are still breaking in. I feel like you can tighten them a fair bit and I'll still kind of travel decently. Travel? Yeah, they'll still kind of like, I don't know, I guess travel decently back and forth. So yeah, so far so good. I do need to get another board though because I threw my board on the curb hunter video and took a big chunk out of the bottom here. So every time I pop it, sounds like the layers are separating at the end here. So I think I'm going to get a passport board next to be honest, because I miss Sydney and I can appreciate the brand way more now that I'm away from home, you know? Ropes. I got out too early. Do it again. I feel like granted the whole thing. Yeah, someone waxed it because they don't know how to back sail. Oh yeah, you could slide the whole thing. Solid, and I think what's shown in his last video is trying to learn how to sit on front tails better. This is the perfect thing for him to figure it out because it's like a good, I don't know, 11 foot ledge, 12 foot ledge. Here at least it doesn't switch no-compile when I ate it. Yeah, you got it. Oh, switch man. Hand up, baby. Yeah, you have to do it again because you just did it. Now you have to do it again. It's going to be a true type of flick. No, I just want more footage for you. It's all about the minutes, baby. Try to go to fakie on this one. That way it's like a different trick. Yeah, go to fakie. I can feel it a bit now. Yeah, you're like sitting on it, good. Speed is key, yeah. Going a little faster helps your body position a lot easier. Okay, we'll do it again. Big spin. Try big spin. Yeah. See how bad that trick wanted to work? It wanted to work so bad. Yeah, first try. Okay. Is that it? Yeah, that was it. All right, now do the line. I slid far enough. Yeah, you slid like three feet, maybe seven feet. Damn, pud well. Let's have a look. Okay, now that we've learned back 180 nose grinds, we're going to learn, I told you it's easy. In my head, it seemed really hard but then you're like, just do this and this. And it's almost like it's a, I don't know. Is it a, it's not a faux trick. No, it's a, it's how you think about it. Every trick is easier to think about it the right way. I told him to focus on where your front foot goes and over rotate it and aim for crooked grind. Don't aim for switch 5L. Cause you've ever switched 5L, you tend to overshoot it. And if you aim for over rotate a front nose, you end up in front nose. So aim for crooked grind. I want to see if I can get like a grind one. Yeah. Well, one. Yeah. Cause that wasn't one. That was like two. Yeah, you got it. The other misconception about this trick is people think you need to ollie high to get into it. I don't ollie high. It's like it's almost slappy. Yeah, it's almost slappy-esque. Like you're cheating? Yeah. Haley, we're in the middle of filming. Basic fundamentals. Two basic fundamentals. And it makes a sick trick. Yeah, that's every trick. Every trick is just a combination of like something else you might already be able to do. Back-winning nose grinds is a great example of that. I try to go back to Goofy, but you just grinded the shit out of that. You see that? He's done like three of them. I love that you can just do this trick. I really want to get it to like- Back to forward. Yeah. That's my favorite one too. Yeah, baby. Come back to regular? Yeah. So when I do back-winning nose grinds are regular, I never adjust my shoulders like I'm in. Like I keep my shoulders here. Oh, I feel like- Yeah, I keep looking the direction that I'm heading. So the second, it's like a front board. The second that you look backwards, you're going to fakie. Yeah. But if you stay looking forward, you go to regular. I found that very common to front side tricks. Like front nose. Absolutely. Front board. Front feeble. Like you look at your toes, you fall. Like if you're here, then you come out, but like once you're there, it's like- Yeah, you're just coming to fakie. Yeah. Feel like I was cleaning up. That was perfect. Let's have a look. You're gone. You're going. Yeah. You know, this grunt's what he wants to learn. He's going around this curb thingy. You just throw it to your front foot. That's all it is. Shove it to automatically go to your front foot. And the faster you get it to your front foot, the less likely it's going to be able to flip over. So just shove it up to your front foot. That's all it is. Shove-nose grind is a very natural trick too. Like, yeah, it just looks like- It's all going the same kind of way, you know? Yeah. Your shove it to naturally get that way anyway. Whoa, that's like crook. Shove it, 55.0. Hell yeah, you got that on lock. What is that? The next generation. What do you mean? That was sick. Yeah, it counts, I think. Let's have a look. It didn't feel like it. Yeah, it's one of those ones where you figured it out here, but it's going to be easier on something, Paul. The fact that this is low makes it pop. I think it's harder for me to pop because it's short and my legs are like longer. It's like more comforting to like pop onto something. Yeah. Because here you're kind of like giving the smallest pop and it froze me off a little bit. Yeah, that's why I do so many slipies because my legs are so long. I'm so big. But I just like, I just got to avoid Ollie's altogether. Just to recap on the title of this video, that park was the first park that I went and skated with the power guys and shouts out to Deville for inviting me out that day to go skate. And I ended up meeting Dale that day and I ended up meeting Dan like a couple of weeks or whatever later on. But I was so shy to skate. Like I couldn't land anything like legit. Like we'd just roll around and like be self conscious the whole time. Cause I was like, oh my God, like I'm here with all these dudes that can skate really well. And like, I don't know if they're going to think I'm lame because my tricks aren't as crazy as theirs or just what, just what all the stuff that you think when you're at a park with new people you start to like trip yourself out a little bit when in reality no one really cares. Everyone's just there to kind of skate and have fun and enjoy skateboarding. So yeah, it's pretty crazy that a lot can happen in a year. I don't know if this sentence is making any sense, but that was last year, it's been a year. I've been here a year now. So I feel like I'm like finally really comfortable here. And I feel like I have my place here. Like I feel like I've found my kind of belonging, I guess. I don't feel that sense of not fitting in anymore. Not that I felt that sense of not fitting in in Sydney. I just felt like there was more, you know? And I can't like, I'm super, super grateful to be up here and thankful that I was allowed out of Australia amidst pandemic, they allowed me to leave. So I took that opportunity and I was scared to leave and I did it and yeah, face your fears, guys. You don't know how much can change in a year for anyone's like doubting themselves, leaning into the fear. That's what will make you kind of grow. This isn't a spiritual channel or whatever. I'm just trying to explain to you a little bit of an insight from myself with being up here and skateboarding and everything else. So yeah, cheers for watching the video. I hope you guys enjoyed it. And yeah, subscribe if you do and I'll catch you guys in the next one. On your way back, bring me this sign. On, on, on your way.