Joe and Chad arrived from Nebraska on a Friday afternoon. Damon arrived shortly after at my house and then we were off for the Flatground Friday tradition. There were 8 of us. Joe, Dave, Rob, Eric, Damon, Chad, Neil, me. It was cool seeing so many people skating flat, but also kind of hectic. Damon and Chad were the young ones and it showed as they quickly jumped on some flip tricks. Dave beat me to a kickflip. Eric was on them heelflips. Neil was lining out his tricks. A PVC pipe was added to the mix for tricks over. Damon took MVP honors with several tricks like fakie flip, b/s flip and a perfect fakie treflip. Dave, Joe and I got kickflips over it. Rob bean planted it. I think Eric heelflipped it. Neil pop shoved it. At one point I had a good line of halfcab flip, heelflip, b/s flip. Shortly after I managed a nollie tre which I haven’t done in a long time and it felt great. I couldn’t do a regular treflip though. Also had a fakie bigflip that felt good. I’m sure a bunch of tricks went down, but I’m writing this several days/sessions/sickness later it’s hard to remember.

Ah yes just some good ol fashion fun with friends! coloRADo has been a blast! @fullertrron an @joerhamilton cruising the spots. #neilsdailyvid #coloRADo #skateboardingisfun #superfriends

A post shared by Neil Thurman (@neilsoffire) on May 26, 2018 at 9:13am PDT

The last part of the session was for sliding the pvc coping. Dave feebled it. I fell into it. Joe halfcab boardslid it. Damon did all kinds of stuff on it.

We moved on to this new spot. What a beaut, but the ledges aren’t too forgiving for the older folk. Unless of course you are the oldest one at the session and immediately front 50 around the corner like Dave did. So crazy. It was a fun session. Rob impressed me by getting up front 50s out of the gate too and kept at a sick line which he did get, even if he tried for awhile to clean it up and make it perfect. Noseslide to fakie, fakie 360 shove, halfcab boardslide. Neilsoffire was in effect with the long lines to get his hype up. Lots of front shoves, noseslides to fakie, front 50s and almost front 50 through the corner. Joe had front 50 and front 50 shove and front 50 through the corner all while maintaining the function of pillar in the middle of the spot. Ha. He went on to film Chad get a line of front tail, nollie flip, back 180 nosegrind. He also filmed Damon go for front nosegrind to fakie then fakie front nose through the corner. Damon also did front 50 bigspin out, fakie back 50 halfcab out (magical), fakie front tail and probably like 20 more tricks. Dave was killing it. Slappy crooks! So many front 50s through the corner, boardslide through the corner, front noseslides. I took awhile to get a basic line of switch front nose, switch front 180 (couldn’t land a halfcab flip), crooks. I got one or two front axle stalls which were really scary to me. That’s the end of the skating for day 1. So fun. Such radical people.

(setup 8.25 null monico deck, venture v-hollow 5.25 high trucks, bones medium bushings, 3 washers inside each axle, bones 51mm stf v1 wheels, es accel slim shoes all black size 11.5, footprint gamechanger low profile orthotic insoles)