Picked up Carleigh then met Dave and eventually Fuzz at the Wells Fargo quarter pipe. Carleigh and Fuzz chatted for awhile while I just kind of rolled around and did some basics to get warmed up. Fuzz showed up shortly after. Everyone was kinda doing their own thing and the vibe was pretty awesome. Carleigh learned back smiths and back tails. Fuzz hasn’t skated much lately and liked to pretend he couldn’t ollie anymore, but he still ollied into noseblunts first try and did lots of other tricks like fakie nose blunt, switch pivot fakie and learned a new trick, front 270 nose pick come out forward (maybe there is a name for this?). Dave did a bunch of old man tricks I was jealous of and don’t know the names of too well. Crailtaps, seran wraps, etc. He also went on to learn back noseblunts! Wow. I was starting most things out by kickflipping up the curb and landed most of them. Slammed hard on a front tail shove and can incredibly close to front smith kickflip out. Landed on it a few times, but would either get wheel bite or hit a crack or just fall off for no reason. So much fun. Oh yeah, Dave got $5 from a drunk dude who thanked him for “putting on a good show” at one point. Shortly after that Dave did a couple really smooth boneless tail taps on a black pillar that also resulted in cheers from a pedestrian, but no money this time. Doh. He tried to teach Fuzz and I to do that trick too and we got it, Fuzz’s was probably even smooth.
We rolled over to the little curb/granite ledge thing in the brick alley. Fuzz wasn’t really feeling it. Carleigh did some front tails. Dave had a crooks to fakie. I got a sloppy kick back 5-0 pivot thing that was intended to be a kick back tail and a front tail shove out that surprised me. We went around the corner to a large rock and tried some wallrides for a bit. It was hard to navigate around a bench to hit it right and the last part of the rock ride was really weird. Unfortunately for Dave he is goofy footed so he had to ride it frontside. Didn’t stop him from getting it first though. Trying to get his back I hung up midway and dove to the ground in pile of hurt. I got up quick though and luckily no damage to the ribs or wrist. Fuzz landed the rockride shortly after and we moved on to the yellow curb parking garage nearby. Fuzz mostly chilled. Carleigh did some long slappy noseslides. Dave had some cool manual combos over the medians like front 180 nose manny 180 out and back 180 nose manny. I did some front 50s, nose mannies and locked into a perfect back tail, bailed, then did a few crappy kick back tails that just barely scraped the tail. Doh. Super fun night though.