Neil, Max and I headed up to Fort Collins to do business at MRKT and then skate at Northside. We met up with Chad, Jess and most of the normal Ft Collins heads were at the park. I warmed up real slow as usual. I dont even remember much of what happened for awhile except the dudes that skate that park everyday destroy it. Taylor front 5-0’ing up the jersey barrier is nuts. Xavier doing back lip followed by back tail over the shallow stairs was nuts too. Max ripped it all day and him and Jess did some back to back 360s over the hip and played big pop all afternoon. Neil skated, rested, skated, rested, skated. During the skating parts he ripped it. Boardslide the jersey barriers. Chad skates that park different than most locals. Not as much gnar, but some big pop and crazy tricks. So rad. I had a good time and landed most of my basics there. So like 3 tricks. I managed to manual the mj ledge with a tiny scrape that I think sits fine in the “over 35” category. Not enough of a scrape to be in the “over 40” category. I also spent a lot of time trying to b/s flip over the mj hip which I finally did with a nice wall hold to stabilize myself. Mike got a nice no comply shove over it and Neil got a really poppy no comply over it. Chad did nollie heel (almost to manny) and Max did treflip (not to nose manual like he wanted). We had a good time and the warm weather felt great. I tried a bunch of ollies over the little mound up top with the goal of some day hitting my chest with my knees. I probably didn’t get close but it was fun trying to suck them up so high. Lastly for me was wallieing the littlest part of the jersey barrier. I took a few slams before finally getting it. Neat. That park rules and so does the Ft Collins scene.

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