We finally got some relief and the rain had slowed down enough for Boulder to be drivable. But of course it was still raining a little so Red Curbs was called and luckily almost totally dry. I think they must have pumped it out and cleaned it, but everyone else thinks it just drained naturally. Either way it was skateable. Ollie and I got there first. We were both pretty tired and it showed. On top of that I felt insanely rusty.

Ollie was really tired and seemed less interested then he has in awhile. Some other kids showed up for awhile and during that period he sat down. Right at the end the kids left and he skated hard for a bit. Some good manuals, front 180s, fakie shoves and a pop shove. Oh and some clean ollies up curbs.

I went through a period were it took me about 15 tries to land a fakie flip. That pretty much sums up how rusty I was. I did manage to get a couple fun lines. Ollie a box, crooks the ledge, front 5-0 the edge of the median, kickflip a little puddle. Fakie flip, sw front 180 a puddle, nose manual. Took me about 30 tries at the end of the session to land a 360 flip. It felt great when I finally did, but UGH. Nothing else really stands out for me.

Neil skated as Neil does. Super clean, fast and fun to watch. He did most of his tricks. No comply over the box, lipslide, etc. He had a rad line of halfcab onto the sidewalk by the doorway then kickflip out of the curb cut.

Rob seemed like he was skating extra good to me. Had a couple really long lines. I of course don’t remember them right now, but some of the tricks I remember are poppy ollies out of the curb cut, slappy lipslides, boardslide fakie, so much more.

At the end the 3 of us played a game of SAKTE. I got to start and rattled off about 8 tricks eliminating Neil and getting Rob to SKAT. Then I didn’t land another trick and ended up losing. Ha. Rob had some rad tricks like back 360, cab and back 180 one foot so I don’t mind losing to tricks like that. I probably got close to the back 180 one foot then I ever have before.

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