Got up early on a gorgeous saturday already in the mid 50s. Liz’s parents were here, but eating lunch with some friends so I had some free time and surprisingly my quads weren’t hurting so bad. Perhaps it’s the warmer weather helping out. I skated flat til Jake and Bernie came over. I felt really rusty. Jake showed first and we both just kinda messed around doing our own thing. Jake put together some decent lines. Bernie showed and we went to a middle school in east Boulder to skate the ledges out front, but instead ended up at the 3 stair in the back. Bernie’s friend Teagan joined us. Jake and I were having a blast. Jake had the first 180 down it and the first ollie up it. When Teagan joined though he almost kickflipped up it, had switch tre down it 2nd try and was having fun too. The photo is him doing a front 360 shove with Jake looking on. Bernie of course found some manual options with it. I managed a few tricks down it. Early grab, boneless, no comply boneless, front shove (first real try) and a kickflip. When we left my legs felt really good. Perhaps I should skate small stair sets more. This was the set I backside flipped before my arthritis hit the fan in 2011.

Jake had to leave. We went to the Google building because Teagan was trying to film a line with a switch tre down the six. While Bernie filmed him I just dorked around. I ended up above trying to ollie this little flower pot. Normally it would be somewhat easy for me, but the angle is so hard so after several fails I just went with a front 180 instead.

I came upon this across from the six stair in the next parking lot. It looked ripe for dorking out on and wow it ended up making my day even better. The slight slant of the sidewalk and the crack were appealing. First tricks were front 180 into it, sw ollie off the curb then a f/s halfcab flip on flat. I should mention that flip tricks were really hard at this point in the day because my shoes were toast. The real fun began when I started treated it like a bank to curb. My first “line” was ollie up, f/s pivot on the crack, kickflip off. I tried to ollie a tall cone after that too, but you all know I can’t do that. I don’t care, I was giggling anyway as that line was super fun. I also did ollie up. no comply to tail, back 180 off the curb. Almost got a kickflip b/s pivot too, but my nose would hit the rail. Eventually it was time to go and meet up with the in-laws. This was one of my favorite days skating in awhile. Dork spots are the best.

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