Played soccer with the kids for awhile, ate, helped with homework a little then went to Denver to bring boards to Emage. Didn’t really plan anything because I didn’t know that I would actually go. I considered Denver park for a brief second then realized I would be much happier skating downtown. So I parked on 15th near the granite wedge spot, did some warming up curb ollies, pushed. Ended up at a spot I skated with Fuzz and Carleigh a long time ago. I was carving a curb cut corner and ollieing onto a little ledge in hopes of ollieing off a big part of it, but people kept walking by with their dogs and they would freak out barking. It was so annoying. So I moved on. Ended at the cheese wedge spot and was in the process of getting warmed up and got the boot of course. I had ollied onto a wedge and off already and normally that takes me several tries. I looked at a perfect ledge over rail spot that would be a gnarly ollie for me. I should have at least tried it, but I didn’t. I ended up at the slappy ledge against the wall spot on the corner that I’ve wanted to skate for awhile The slappy part was easier then I remember and oh so fun. I tried to line it out with the 3 stair which I kind of did, but I started noticing people in the buildings still working at 9pm and they were clearly annoyed by the noise I was making. Argh, I really wanted to line out something fun. Oh well.

I moved on to this spot (both photos) which has two sets of small stairs which I love. Last summer I had tried a line there, but got the boot. I tried the same line. Ollie up the curb, back 180 off the two stair (top photo), fakie bigflip on flat, front shove the 1.1 stair (bottom photo). It was hard getting used to so many people being outside and skating around them. It feels like it was just winter a week ago and no one would be outside. Anyways, I tried the line for a long time. I got the fakie bigflip quite a few tries early on and bailed the front shove for various dumb reasons. Then I couldn’t land the fakie bigflip for awhile, but eventually I did and got a great feeling front shove. It felt really awesome to get that line. I was also hyped on all the back 180s because I normally struggle with that trick. I think the bigger setup helps for the basics. And three days on the Indys and no complaints yet. Crazy. I headed home after that.

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