Still super tired from the all day filming marathon and recovering from arthritis/illness. Went to Valmont for a short solo session. I skated slow, but it was the kind of session I needed to get my skate feet back. I couldn’t do a crooked grind to save my life, but other then that things went ok. Got quite a few front tails that slid a bit, front 5-0, back 50, fakie bigflip, treflip, heelflips, etc. All slow. At times I was so tired I had to just sit. I also had a bit of that arthritis hot pocket feeling, but it wasn’t intense enough to not try stuff. Anyways the session felt a little productive and hopefully I can start skating better again.

Headed to Denver with Jack, Carleigh and (shhh) new guy Connor. We met up with Chad and a friend of his named Cody that could probably get sued for looking exactly like Tom Asta. We started out at a ledge spot, but were kicked out before I could snap an ollie. Oh yeah, I had new trucks. Yes I am pathetic, but the wheel bite thing was driving me nuts and I wanted to change that right away. I got some Ace trucks at Crisis. They seem pretty awesome so far and I can actually turn without coming to a halt. We went to a bank spot under a bike path where we lasted for several hours. By the time we left Connor had a rad line, Chad had a rad line, Jack cheated death, I did a no comply to tail and jumped in some bushes, Carleigh took a bunch of awesome photos, Asta popped some good ollies. Next spot we went to (above) looked pretty fun. I went right to filming as Jack was about to put down a varial heel which he did several times. Carleigh almost got the ollie. Chadman came through slightly before dark with a banger of a line. Dude rips so hard. We had a nice fattening burrito and met up with Fuzz and others at Broomfield park 20 minutes before the lights shut off. I was so insanely tired and sore from filming that I lowered my Broomfield park standard by a lot. Which I don’t get because everyone else was like “you seemed fine to me”. Really? Does bailing a back 50 on the blue curb really seem like I’m doing fine? Ha. Then we went and hung at Fuzz’s and I pulled a Neil because I was so tired. It was fun though.

Had a tough week, my arthritis came back. Not debilitating like last fall, but bad enough to prevent me from skating or having much of any energy. It seems like this is a response to being sick awhile ago. So that’s probably how my life will be for awhile. Anytime I get sick I can expect an arthritis flare up a few days after. Ugh, but, could be a lot worse.

Anyways, I met Jack and Bernie at Casey Middle School and we dorked around on these rocks for awhile. All I did was an axle stall. Bernie is just starting to skate again after recovering from a knee injury so he’s keeping it mellow and having fun. After a bit we went on to film Jack work on hot pocketing his back foot. He succeeded. Ouch.

We went to this gem of a spot next. I spent about an hour trying nose manual front 180 out on the curb. I came close, but did not succeed. I’m gonna partly blame the excessive wheel bite bumming me out. Bernie did some neat manual tricks and giggled a bunch and ruled it. Carleigh showed up and also had to keep it mellow due to her back. Man, we are geezers. Ha, Jack isn’t though and he put together a rad little line which I pointed the camera at without even shaking it too much.