Epic.

My knee felt better the last couple days so I decided to risk it and go skate with everyone on old man skate night. In the first couple minutes I tried to do an impromptu axle stall with Fuzz on the brick qp, but just rolling up it the pain shot into my knee again. Ugh. I thought I was done that quick. I stood around for awhile which is kind of what all of us were doing. Brian’s back has been hurting him too. We’re old. Fuzz was wearing a “fat suit” (hoodie with hood tied tight) to sweat off some pounds. Ha. Half of the Denver Shop dudes showed up which made for some good skating to watch. Josh Murphy killed it. After some standing around the pain in my knee subsided and I tooled around on the smallest stuff at the park, the blue ledge and the quartapotty. I didn’t do anything great for me, but I was skating and I was able to do crooks, manuals and back 50s without much pain. Everyone else was playing a big game of add a trick. I think Conor won it. Dean boardslid the brown ledge. Eventually most of us moved to the other side of the park. Brian and Fuzz were doing some willy grinds to fakie on the brick qp. Dean front 180’d the rail out of the bump. Locals were killing the gnarly concrete bank hip. Neil was being elusive. I was trying noseslide 270 shove out over and over. Got close a lot, but the board kept hitting the ledge. I should wait longer to do the shove, but that would require skill. After some sitting around Fuzz, Dean and I played a game of SKATE that turned more into SKATERBOY or something. Eventually Fuzz and I just tried treflips over and over. He did a ton, I did a couple. We tried to pretend we were busting them in a line down a hill all easy. Kind of helped. But yeah, my knee worked!!! There was some pain for sure, but it kind of felt like it was working itself out. Hope it keeps on improving and doesn’t continue to need an hour to loosen up.