After a nice lunch and nap at the parents house Liz dropped me off at the Loveland park where I met up with Neil, Lazer and Carley. Before I could even ollie onto the ledge Carley had pop shoved the 3 stair. Neil was pretty frustrated cruising around. Lazer was murdering everything with a rolled ankle. I was sucking. I laned a no comply shove over the hip, but it sucked. Sean Kelly showed up with Adam Yee and Justin. Those dudes were all ripping. That might even be the best I’ve seen Sean skate. Justin had 20 trick combos on tranny. He’s fun to watch and Adam’s style is textbook radness. I got stuck in a rut of failing to land wallrides on the q-pipe to wall. I got very angry and close to focusing my board. Luckily I landed a horrible one and we headed out to a nearby high school.The high school had this weird bank spot. You could ollie over the six stair rail into the bank, ollie into the bank from a concrete platform, manual up it, do tricks on the middle bar of a gate, the possibilities were endless. I took a bunch of tries to get a backside flip off the platform into the bank. I didn’t do it where there is much of a drop. It was super fun though. Neil got a no comply to tail on the middle bar of the gate. Carley slammed trying to do a double ollie run. Sean got a bunch of noseslide tricks on the middle bar, kickflipped into the bank and did a sick tailslide out of the bank onto the platform. Justin did a bunch of cool tricks that can’t be described by words. Adam almost nose manualed down the bank. At the end I tried to ollie into the bank and manual down it from the platform and followed each attempt with a 360 flip. I managed 3 3flips in a row and managed to crack my board too. Ha. Wanted to skate it longer, but we had to get going ..

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