skate journal: broomfield park with dean and max (Dec 9, 2011)
After the fun red curbs session the night before I thought I might be up for more. I ran a little late meeting Dean on a crisp friday morning I had off of work. Some of the park was shoveled. The quartapotty had ice in front of it, but was still skateable. Dean and Max were ripping. Dean skated some of the best I’ve seen him skate. Boardslides across the taller brown ledge, manuals across the blue one. Max skates so hard. His tricks included hardflip manual and 360 flip nose manual on the blue ledge. He almost got 360 flip nose manny nollie flip out. Wow. He did some tricks up down the little rail too. I was feeling bad. No pop whatsoever in my legs. I think the arthritis is worse early in the day and I also think I should wear long johns whenever it’s below freezing because the cold makes it worse. The only things I did I was hyped on were front 50 on the blue ledge going 2mph and a front rock on the quartapotty. Yes, I was that bad. At one point I tried to ollie onto the blue ledge and it literally took every ounce of strength I had. Ugh. It feels good to be out with friends rolling around, but at the same time it’s super depressing not being able to skate remotely like I want to. At one point I bailed a trick on the brick qp (Imagine that Brian, me bailing?) and I couldn’t run fast enough down the tranny to stay on my feet. That didn’t help my mood. Glad to see Dean and Max ripping though. And had fun hanging at Crisis after. But man, the way my ankles/knees feel preventing me from being able to really skate sucks.