Last weekend me and Devil on Enzyte skated an indoor park and we had this little table top set up on top of a wedge-kicker to flat (that leads to a quarter).
I spent most of my evening doing different types of blunt slides across it... I do blunt slides all the time, but never on anything with a considerable height, but with the assistance of the little kick I was getting regular, frontside and noseblunts pretty consistently. I could lock into back nose blunts every time (sometimes with my back foot not even touching the board) and back nose blunt the thing with just my foot on the nose... gonna revisit that soon and get it.
Anyway, this leads me to yesterday, when one of my friends brought a legit-sized bench-style box to skate... it's as high as a real bench, and after a number of failed attempts I figured out how to pop from flat and noseblunt something on the higher side (for me). I even figured out that if I can lipslide it, I can noseblunt slide it (...and land it as long as I can pop off the end of it vs. coming out early).
Anyway, super stoked... didn't learn a new trick, but now I see it completely differently and can take it around to more places now. Doubly stoked because next week I'm 35 and I've really had a resurgence in how I handle street skating. I've been feeling renewed and shit... jumping down stairs and hardflipping again. This is more of a "thing I'm stoked on" but I'm stoked at what I see as my own progression. Fucking loving it.