skate journal: boulder spots with jack and josh and more (dec 22, 2015 day 342)

Jack came over after an early morning shift at Que’s. We headed downtown and ended up at the alley little ledge spot. It was fun. I was feeling a little lazy and stuff. I skated poorly enough that I remember being happy about back 50s. I got close to a kickflip back 50 too. Jack rattled off a ton of tricks. Bigspin back tail. B/s shove to back 50. Wallride above the ledge. Pressure flip noseslide maybe?

Then we moved on with the intention of going to the Wells Fargo QP, but there was a cop parked at it. Doh. We met up with new Boulder park guy Josh. We looked at a couple wet spots and then ended up at Arapahoe Ridge and started skating it a little. Jack had done nollie shove manual and almost hippy jump back 50. Josh did a manual I think. I had done a drop done manual. Then some lady “politely” kicked us out.

@jackspanbauer fun times at an old spot.

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Then we ended up here. I parked right by it. It was quite fun. We rattled off some tricks and ended up being here for a long time. Jack did blunt to nosepick, pivot shove nosepick, up to front lip, almost wallride on the electric box and a bunch more. Like Jack, I was pretty tired. I didn’t do any new tricks. Oh, actually transfer to front 50, but that doesn’t really count. I struggled with backside flips and all flip tricks. Ugh. Josh had a lot of fun it seemed and did a bunch of transfer tricks. I’m writing this too much after the fact to remember much about the session. It was fun and great to skate with Jack again. It has been too long.

(Setup 8.38 null venture wides bones medium bushings 52mm spitfire 99a F4 nb# PJ stratford 533 brown/gum)