Went to Lafayette after work with rain threatening and some gusty wind. Since I had cracked my board and didn’t have grip I had mounted an older 8″ board I had in the garage. The park wasn’t too crowded. I had some fun little grinds in the fishbowl, almost a lipslide in it. A fun little backside ollie under the manhole bump, almost a kickflip to fakie on a bank almost front 50 on the granite ledge and then the rain started. I was kind of bummed since I was just approaching the warmed up stage, but also kind of happy to get home and chill.

(setup 8 null lazer deck, venture 5.25 awake lows, doh dohs 92 bushings, 3 washers inside each axle, 51mm v1 bones stf wheels, new balance numeric 255 cream/gum size 12, footprint flat 5mm insoles)
(pain level 3/10 pretty sore when I started)

After a long day of work and some soccer with Ollie I went to Broomfield debating just staying at home. There weren’t many people when I arrived. Justin and Darin were playing on the quartapotty/manny pad. Sean was dynamically stretching. Rob had been there a bit and was already sweating. Justin was on a bad one trying front 180 fakie manual over and over and not getting it until the inevitable board focus came. Darin had some tricks on the qp. Rob had a nice nose manual on the brown angled ledge, but didn’t get it again. He had some fakie bigspins and b/s flips too. Sean warmed up with flippers and played back heel with Darin after Justin left. I struggled with front 50. Argh. I was determined to get a line I’ve wanted to do for awhile. Start at the ledge and end at the six stair. Everyone else had left except Sean and I. He was trying a line of front nosegrind the happy ledge, nose manual 180 the brown angled ledge, switch back heel. He did it, but kept at it because the switch back heel wasn’t perfect. I had settled on front 50 front shove out, back shove out of the mellow bank, curve around the pool then ollie the six stair. I went through waves of problems with the front 50, but near the end I was somewhat consistent. I few tries before the make I snapped the tail real good. Kinda surprised there was any pop left, but it worked out. I didn’t know Sean was filming the ollie. Pretty cool. It was a really fun line even if I splatted ~10 times before riding away.

(setup 8.25 null perception deck, venture 5.25 awake lows, doh dohs 92 bushings, 3 washers inside each axle, 51mm v1 bones stf wheels, new balance numeric 255 cream/gum size 12, footprint flat 5mm insoles)
(pain level 3/10 knees were sore at the beginning)