Oh man. Such as amazing day. I was so sore the next day that even my upper body was sore. Wowsers. And that was before helping Carleigh move. Anyways, back to Monday, epic skate day. It started early for me as I had to drive to work, drop off my work phone, bring orders to Fed Ex and make a trip to the post office before meeting at Crisis at 9am. No one was there at 9. We left around 10:30. Not so bad. We were all piled in the Square State bus and made the trek to Roxborough skatepark. We stopped at a gas station nearby and I got some coffee. Yeah coffee! I had taken a few sips when we got to the skatepark. I cruised down the sidewalk to the park thinking to myself this was kind of fast for first thing in the morning, but it was fun. I was just cruising taking little carves when all of a sudden SLAM. Threw my coffee, slammed my knee into the ground, ate shit, ruined some new pants. Turns out there was a new section of concrete that had some weird layer of ice on it. Sweet. I hadn’t even made it into the park before slamming. It really didn’t bum me out though.

Everyone cruised around getting warmed up. Eventually people settled into some tricks and areas of the park. Jack and I skated the ledge for awhile and had a blast. Fuzz and Brian rolled in on the crazy extension thing. Gordon was skating. Actually skating. Hyped to see it. The ledge session that Jack and I had going was pretty amazing. He did nollie heel noseslide, crooks 3 shove, wallie 50, wallie blunt, front tail shove, so much more. I had a few crooks, front 5-0s, front 5-0 shove and some bad back 50s. It was really fun. We would try lining things out with the little qp. Well, we tried before Neil joined and disrupted the flow by always going. Ha. I think I managed front 5-0, front d, crooks. Also had a couple 3 flips on flat in there too.

While Jack and I were finishing up destroying the ledge people had started skating the pool at the back of the park. I joined. I sucked it up, but dropped into the shallow which hyped me up. I guess I got tile on one carve, but that was it. Fuzz, Chad, Brian, Gordon were killing it. Neil couldn’t drop in, but would still manage some good runs. Dean was in the mix too. Gordon skated hard and it was epic to watch. Front 5-0 the qp above the pool, roll in (so gnarly!) and follow it up with a run going over the stairs frontside and backside. Tranny killer. Brian was going for hurricane over the stairs and almost put it down. Fuzz struggled for front tail? Unheard of. Toward the end of this session I filmed Jack do a kicky back tail:

Then played around on the tranny solo for awhile. It was fun, but depressing. I tried a bunch of frontside ollies on this little hump. Maybe a few of them left the ground. I bailed a lot more axle stalls then I wanted to. But I had fun and managed a couple tricks that made me feel remotely ok.

Next we drove to the new Arvada skatepark that isn’t open yet. Neil had said we had an invite to skate it, but it sure didn’t seem like it when we got there. It was a weird vibe. Some skated, others sat in the bus. Jack and Brian dropped in on the monster 13 foot wall of death. Some Team Pain dude later rolled in on as his first thing on the board for the day. So gnarly. Brian grinded over the door first try. So sick. Jack did a sick late shove transfer. Neil was able to drop in into the mini bowl. Skelly joined us for a bit. Ripping. The park looks fun, I’ll wait til it’s done to go back though.

Last spot of the day was Rock Creek. Rock Creek! Gordon played a game of SKATE! He ripped it too. It was Jack, Gordon, some kid named Zeb I think and me. I was out quick. Gordon was out second, but ripped it with tricks I’ve never seen him do (not saying much though because I’ve never seen him skate flat before). Zeb had tricks like double dolphin flips so him and Jack were fun to watch do crazy tricks. I skated the ramp with others for awhile. Didn’t do much, but had fun. Gordon ripped the ramp. Every combo ever. So good. Fuzz was ripping. Brian slammed pretty hard, but still ripped it. My highlights were actually landing flatground tricks after the ramp session. Lots of treflips, a couple nollie tres, etc. It was really fun.

The day as a whole though, wow, so insanely fun. Days like this are hard to top and I was so sore I could hardly walk the next day.