I don’t know man, Grant Taylor is amazing and all, but Busenitz is the best.

I guess winter and skateparks go together pretty well because we ended up at northGLENn once again. This time it was Carleigh, Jake and I and we met Brian and Lazer for a bit. For how warm it was supposed to be it felt surprisingly cool outside and warming up took a bit. Carleigh, Brian, Lazer and I skated the little bank to get warmed up. I had new shoes and they felt a little stiff even though I’ve worn them around for awhile. I love the Manchesters though. Brian said his knee was hurting and that it was all swollen. I felt and oh my it was huge. Ice that knee Brian. Take a break from skating! Carleigh thought back rock would be hard, but did it first try. She also got a front rock kind of. Jake was ollieing the mellow rail every try and working on front noseblunts on the bank. No luck this time. I felt kinda good for a bit. It was the first time in months my left knee didn’t hurt at all. Hopefully that continues. This allowed me to finally try some other tricks and I noseslid the medium hubba in a couple tries. It felt awesome. I also crooked the flat ledge (although I popped out early which I didn’t want to do) and got a couple front 50s on it. The first front 50 attempt was so bad. I have no idea what happened, but luckily I walked out of it without injury. Carleigh was trying flatground kickflips and I tried a couple too. I didn’t even get close and ended up hurting my back foot abit. Ugh. Not in an injury way, but in an arthritis way. That pretty much ended the ollie part of the day for me. I had a few more slow front 50s, but yeah, my pop was gone. I started skating the bowl. The combo of new shoes and a relatively new smaller board/trucks setup was weirding me out. It took a lot of tries before I landed an axle stall. I had some fun carves in the tile in the deepend. I love how carving tile is considered a trick other than carving. It’s like grinding without having to do anything. I love it! I did have one carve up there that felt extra awesome. Jake and Carleigh joined in. Carleigh drops in the deepend and can do all her tricks first t. No fair. Jake rips tranny. Lots of grinds both ways. I got a few grinds in the shallow, but ran out of a bailed axle stall really weird and kinda hurt my foot even more. Actually both feet were hurting in ways I hadn’t experienced before. It kinda sucked. Because of my arthritis I can’t sprint fast enough to get out of bails in that bowl gracefully. I slammed pretty hard once so I sat for a bit. My feet were pretty jacked after that. The park was pretty empty at this point and we were all kinda working on our own stuff. Carleigh wanted to do front tail over the hip to switch crooks. Apparently she got it, but here is how she described it, “GLEN! I DID THAT THING! THAT TRICK I WANTED TO DO I DID IT. YOU KNOW THAT TAILSLIDE THING!” Ha ha so awesome. So Carleigh, it’s called front tail to switch crooks. Jake kept getting close to noseblunts. I was trying front lips over the little hip in the middle of the park, but never got to close to landing on it. All in all a fun day. Wish my feet hadn’t started hurting. And I gotta admit I was kinda missing the bigger setup.