Got out of work around 4:00 on a beautiful friday. Been thinknig of going to this park for awhile that is less than 5 minutes from IBM. I called up Bernie and he was down to meet up. I showed up first and used the free time to put some new bearings in. Then I cruised around and it was super weird rolling faster. My other bearings were so bad, old and done. I’m not sure why I skated so bad, but nothing clicked. Bernie showed up and started ripping pretty quick. Then three carloads of random dudes from Denver showed up. Whoa, I guess they had looked at the photos in the skatepark dir and thought the park looked fun. They were all cool, but I was hoping for a mellow session and it ended up being pretty heated and I was feeling extra lame for how my skating was going. There was a couple time I almost died on dumb shit. Once was on a kickflip to fakie on the bank where I almost rolled backwards under the rail. The other was an attempt at riding up one of the qp’s trying to go to cali grind. Not sure how I didn’t break my tailbone on the corner of the ledge, but I did survive. Bernie was straight killing it though. Long 50s. Long kick back tail to fakie. Sick line of kickflip, front board to fakie, fakie flip, fakie 5-0 fakie front shove out, fakie treflip. Geez. My only highlights were crooks on the short ledge, noseslide the tall ledge, not breaking anything, and well, nothing. At the end we played a game of SKATE that I lost. Last letter was a fakie bigflip which is normally an easy trick for me. Ugh. I’m guessing it was my arthritis or something that made me skate so bad. I felt really weird. I think the new bearings added a bit of weirdness too.

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