Left shortly after 9am and got a whopping 37mpg on the way to CO Springs.  So awesome.  Yes, I’m obsessed by gas mileage these days.  The new park is huge.  Huge.  It took a good 15 minutes of skating around it to even start to take it all in.  The street course is huge.  There are 3 bowls.  There is a section of rocks/curbs/spines banks.  Basically the park has everything but a normal ledge.  Nate and I started out in the street/”flow” area.  There is some crazy bank wallride things.  I seriously can’t even write about how much fun it is because things like wallriding up a 5 stair bank make no sense in words.  Riding down kinked banks, etc.  For awhile I had some good energy and was skating ok.  I ollied a hip, backside flipped a flat wall, then almost f/s flipped the next one.  Nate and I got bluntslides over this seriously rad flat bank hip.  Later on I slammed over and over trying to noseslide the hip.  We all got together and skated a 1 foot tall spine that is a total blast.  Jake and I learned back feeble back 180 transfers.  I also got a front feeble front 180 transfer.  Sounds cool, but it was easy.  Then we skated the “legit” pool.  Carving it is fun, carving the tight corner is fun.  Lazer straight killed it.  Front slash the deep.  I carved the tile.  Whew!The rest of the session is kind of a blur until we skated two super tight qpipes like a halfpipe.  Lazer and Jake killed it.  I was just hyped to get rock fakies it was so tight.  I also got a fakie back smith stall to fakie. Next up was Parker.  We were all tired, but a few grinds around the hard way of the 3 foot corner gets the feet going.  Nate and I skated the ledge for a long time.  I got most of my tricks and I tried to do them in order.  back boardslide, back noseslide, front 50, back crooks, front 50 180, front 50 shove, back crooks, front 5-0, front 5-0 180, front 5-0 shove, back 50 (had a lot of trouble with it) and finally front smith grind.  I tried a bunch of smith grinds which turned more and more 5-0 each time until I finally got bummed and went twice as fast and held it down.  Best smith grind I’ve ever done.  Before leaving Nate and I skated the Colorado flag q-pipe and little mini q-pipe for a long time.  I got a couple Rampy tricks before trying to do front 50 back 180 out, but I never landed that.  Super fun day.

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