On a hot day I met Luzius at the yellow frontage road bank to curb/ledge spot near my house.  I skated my 8.75 because I hadn’t put bigger wheels on my 8.5, but I regretted it.  I never really made it past the warm up phase.  I couldn’t lipslide even though the bigger setup definitely kept it’s speed better.  Dave went on to do a sick front board pop out.  

Then we met Jack at the Arapahoe pipe bank spot with the ledge.  Jack and Dave setup new boards.  Dave had some good front 50s, but didn’t get the smith he wanted.  Jack did hurricanes super casual, super good back tails.  I had a line in mind and started in on the warm ups.  First was boardslide flop out then ollie to fakie.  Second was switch front nose then fakie ollie.  Then switch front nose 270 out followed by fakie flip.  It red for about an hour and a half, Jack was kind enough to film it, but I never got it.  I went through a stretch where I bailed the first trick like 20 times in a row.   It was so frustrating.  That bank is so hard for flip tricks.  I had a really god slam on one of the switch front noseslide 270 attempts.  After Jack left I was pretty over it, but Dave started playing around again and would do a line of front hurricane then ollie to fakie over a pipe.  It was really sick.  I went home and realized my legs were so scraped up and bloody from the day.  Argh, so much for skating in shorts.

(setup 8.5 curby deck, ultra grip, venture 5.8 custom hollow cast baseplate titanium hangers, stock purple bushing bones top washer, 52mm spitfire green/yellow swirl classic 99a F4, new balance numeric 913 westgates b/w size 12, no insoles)
(pain level 4/10 my legs got so bloody from so many scrapes skating the rough streets in shorts)

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