Slept in kinda late after the Fort Collins session. I was less sore then I thought I would be. I can probably attribute that to stretching and doing a foam roller when I got home. It was the first Saturday where Neil was gone. I was sad. I played some nerf guns with Ollie, went to Meta to sell boards and did some cleaning around the house. I got out skating around 2pm on a cloudy and cool June day. I love cloudy days. I started slow, then eventually got into the whole ‘try a line forever until you get it’ mode. The first line was to ollie onto the bench in the top photo band back 180 off, then halfcab noseslide the ledge. I eventually got this. The ollie onto the first bench was hard for me, I was getting on at the crack. Next line, and I still can’t believe I did this one, was Front 50 the ledge in the bottom photo, front 180 up the 2 stair, halfcab flip into the handicap ramp then front board pop out the bench in the third video. That one took me awhile. Then I kinda messed around with flatground and ledge tricks for awhile. Did a bunch of crooks, a bad front nose, a backside axle stall (no grind, I’m terrified of back 50s on these benches for some reason), almost nollie var flip, sw var flip. Then I went to battle with the bench to picnic table combo in the second photo. It’s so hard for me. I was getting so sore and tired. I got onto the table a few times, but would barely make it and kind of roll the back trucks over the edge of the table. I wanted a clean one, but alas, I ended up going with one where I don’t even really know what happened. It wasn’t clean at all, but I got onto the table and I made it off. Good enough for me. Kind of a bummer I couldn’t land a treflip, but I was hyped that I skated as hard as I did. This spot is awesome.

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