After a chill day at work I went to the dog park on a beautiful afternoon, but a little breezy at times. Cold weather was supposed to be moving in and I think it was messing with me. Because a couple minutes in I slammed on a front shove so bad I almost hit my head bad on the ground. What the heck. It scared me and I felt like leaving. But I was chatting with JP and he gave me some trick ideas. He suggested fs halfcab heel so I started trying it. About 15 tries later I got that one above. Dave showed up around now. Next trick for me was the kickflip version which took a bit and all I got was that tic tac’d one. Oh well. Dave was on his putter and started with shoves in all directions, nollie 180s, etc. He went in on fakie hippy flips, but didn’t quite get one. Also f/s halfcab flip which he was also close on, varial flip which I think he got, bigspin which looked great and came super incredibly close to 360 flip. Man. I had done a really awkward f/s flip and Josh’s next suggestion was b/s flip. Got the crappy one above first try and moved on. Tried Rick flips and back heels. Got remotely close to Rick flip, but not the back heel. That’s a weird one for me, I’ve never really done it, but it does seem doable. Can’t wait to see Dave land a treflip, he’s so close.

(setup 8.25″ null atomic cowboy, venture 5.25 awake lows, 50mm bones stf v1, 3 washers on the inside of each axle, venom 91a bushings, new balance numeric 533v2 black/gold size 11.5, custom orthotic insole)

After work, a quick meal and a Null drop at Crisis I went to Broomfield park on a cool night. There were a few people when I got there and they were all biking or skating. It was too cold for any lurkers to be sitting around. I warmed up hitting a basics not really with anything in particular. I never really tried anything long, just kind of cruised all over hitting or missing some basics. I had a good feeling crooks on the black ledge. Tried a line for awhile that kept getting longer. Started with front or back 180 into the bank, halfcab noseslide, tiny ollie on the brick qp, noseslide 270 shove the brown ledge. Never got the nose shove. Then I started trying it with a front 50 front 180 out on the black ledge, fakie flip out of the mellow bank, then turn around and start with the 180 into the bank. I never got the fakie flip although I was close. I started trying a couple nose manuals on the brown bank, and then decided I should line it out even further by starting with an ollie down the six stair. I bailed a couple, it actually took a lot for me to even jump down the stairs. But I had a couple treflips in a row on flat that I thought would hype me up enough to do it, but nope I bailed. Then the lights shut off.

(setup 8.25″ null atomic cowboy, venture 5.25 awake lows, 50mm bones stf v1, 3 washers on the inside of each axle, venom 91a bushings, new balance numeric 533v2 black/gold size 11.5, custom orthotic insole)