After a quick Null stop at 303 and Jeff’s place Nate and I showed up in the downtown area parked near the art museum.  We started off trying wallrides in some totally crappy parking lot and an even rougher wall.  It was kind of a good warm up even though it took us each forever to land a wallride.  Nate got his first of course and it became a theme that he would land everything before me.  Next up we went to the art history museum (i think) and tried to manual the gray bank around the long mellow handrail.  Nate got it.  I didn’t.  It was really dark though so that’s my excuse.  I did come kinda close a couple times though (at least in my head).  Then we went to the library area and skated the metal sculpture for a bit.  I took a long time to do a lame ollie up to wallride fakie where as Nate did it first try.  Nate did some other front board to fakie nose man to grind thing that he’ll never be able to reproduce ever.  Ha.  Up next was some new building with tons of gray benches that are super smooth on top.  We skated a couple that had gaps in there and trying various ollie and manual combos.  Nate beat me to ollie up gap manual and he also did man gap man.  sick!  He also managed to slam pretty much as hard as I’ve ever seen him slam.  It was like he was trying to swat a fly on the ledge with his chest.  Ouch.  At the end I got an ollie up gap noseman.  But the gap was so small I only had to lift over it and lean forward.  I was still hyped.  We ollied up a tall ledge before moving on to a different area where we ollied up one bench and front 180’d to another one.  Fun times.  We were pretty eat and went to leave but found a sick bump to weird frontside wallride.  Nate got i.  Some bikers fighting had me burnt on the spot, but we stuck around long enough for me to get it too.  It was really fun because the bump was about 3 feet back from the wall and it had this little bank about 2 feet up.  So we stalled on it then came back into the bank.  Really damn fun.  Gotta bring Jeff there and film.  He could destroy it.  or be over it.  Ha.

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