Had the day off work. Chilled with Liz in the morning then went to Broomfield park around noon. I didn’t really hit anyone up because I wasn’t sure I could push regular there long enough to call it a session. It felt decent though and Rob would come meet up. It was really fun skating an almost vacant park. For awhile I was the only one skating. I took it kind of easy though and didn’t really do any tricks that required much speed/pushing. Tried front noseslides on the black box, kind of got one. Got front 50, front 5-0, noseslide, noseslide fakie, crooks. Almost got a fun line starting at the top of the park with a kickturn on the steep bank, fs ollie on the little hump by the bowl, nollie into the bank, crooks the black ledge then a b/s flip on flat. Never got the b/s flip. Rob showed and warmed up by doing boardslides and manuals on basically everything in the park. The manual up the longer escalator ledge followed by nose manual the blue box was hot. I couldn’t do the darn nose manual on the blue box. Came close to kick back 50 and fakie nosegrind on the blue box. Then we played SKATE. It was a fun one with lots of no complies and flippers. Rob got me with cab, back 360 and something else, but his back of tricks that almost always getsme letters (back 180 one foot, back 180 no comply, 43 shifty, etc) was eluding him so I eventually won with a fakie bigflip. Then we mostly skated the blue bank. Rob worked on no comply manual up and around it and would eventually get it. I tried to manual up it, fs slash the top then manual down. Came pretty close, got lots of manuals, but never with the grind. Still fun though. I also gave kickflip onto the bank, then kickflip to fakie a few whirls, but never did that. Then we headed to Crisis and chilled awhile. Twas fun.

After helping the kids with homework and all that I went to skate some flat again at Valmont. For the most part I skated switch or pushed mongo to nollie tricks. did push regular a few times to test out achilles and do a couple kickflips. It felt decent, but I wanted to give it another day or two. Since I was so close with nollie fs flips the last time I started with them. I don’t think I ever got as close as the previous night. Doh. I tried switch b/s flips too. That trick seems remotely possible. Came super close to a switch flip or two then started trying a couple random ones. Big front heel and fakie hardflip. Big front heel wasn’t close, fakie hard seemed very possible. I have landed that trick once back in 2008 so it’ll still count as new in my book. I didn’t skate for nearly as long as I was pretty tired.