Drove by the BV skatepark on my way home and it was full of kids on strider bikes so I yelled some obscenities and went to Fairplay. I had Fairplay to myself for most of the session until a minivan dropped off 4 kids with the gamut of toys; skateboards, scooters and bikes. I never went in the bowl except to get my board out. Ha. I started out mostly on the ledge. Noseslide, noseslide to fakie, crooks, boardslide, front board, switch noseslide, switch front nose, front 50, front 50 shove, couldn’t get halfcab noseslide. Then I struggled to get ollie up, ollie the gap. I went through a few flippers setting up, but got stuck at fakie big and treflip. Then I tried kickflip axle stall for a long time. 30 minutes. I couldn’t quite get it. It was so frustrating. About when I gave up on that is when the kids showed up. I got super frustrated again just trying noseslide to fakie. How was that trick hard? The kickflip off the kicker took about 10 tries to commit, but I got the first one I committed to and it felt good. After that i kind of dorked around trying a deck check to manual down the little angled ledge. I wanted to skate more, but I was out of juice. Another session where I left wanting more of myself.

(setup 8.3 null curby deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.8 custom titanium, stock bushings, 51mm spitfire 101a F4 classic shape, lakai atlantic b/w size 11.5, xero thin insoles)
(pain level 4/10 knees)  

Out early on my way to my mom’s I remembered I needed to get her a printer. So I stopped in Silverthorne and skated for almost an hour before going to OfficeMax. I started slow, pumping around the outside. Actually, only once did I even to into the main area. I took a bit to get an axle stall on a rock that has transition into it. Then a little kickflip to fakie on a bank, noseslide on the bump to red ledge, nothing really on the main ledge although I was close to nose manual. Then I pretty much only tried a line for awhile. Ollie onto the ledge, heelflip on flat, noseslide down the big hubba. I would get incredibly close, but didn’t land the noseslide right. Some of my heelflips felt really good.

Then I ended up at Leadville park which had ropes around it with a warning that it was partially closed. No one was working and one little kid was skating so I joined. He would leave after a bit, another guy skated briefly, then I basically had it all to myself for a couple hours. A couple hours? Yikes I did not land much considering I was there that long. I dorked around with some back 50s on the little curved ledge, got close to nose manual the round pad, manualled up the MJ ledge, couldn’t crooks the bump to ledge. Had some fun frontside ollies on the bank then got a questionable noseslide 270 shove. I debated cleaning it up, but preferred to just skate around. I like the top area with the drop down ollie up. But I didn’t skate it well at all, couldn’t even do a trick down other than ollie. Tried a line of kickflip on the hump then front 50 shove the MJ ledge. But I couldn’t keep my speed well enough after the kickflip and gave up on that. I made myself ollie up the curb with speed a few times. I say with speed, but for me that means slightly more than stationary. I failed at some nosegrinds on the little ledge. Then I headed out. It was another one of those days where I didn’t skate bad necessarily, but I wasn’t happy when I was done.

(setup 8.3 null curby deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.8 custom titanium, stock bushings, 51mm spitfire 101a F4 classic shape, lakai atlantic b/w size 11.5, xero thin insoles)
(pain level 4/10)  

After some fun plumbing issues at home Jack, Jake and I went to Evergreen park. Arriving into the park I felt off, this would not change. My excuse lately has been that I have to wear glasses. We were hyped to see Crisis crew Chase and Garrett were there. Jack was doing back 3s over the hip and some incredibly gorgeous kickflips. My warm up playing around was worse than normal. I actually don’t remember a whole lot about this session as I’m writing it a few days after. I’ll just do a quick highlights. Chase rips, so man steezy flippers over the hip. I’ve never seen Garrett skate before, he goes big. Rob was doing manuals, nose manual, back 50s, halfcab boardslide and blessed us with a bean plant over the hip. Jake was shredding. Tailslides, front blunt the qp, sweeper on the steep qp, kickflip the hip. I took forever to get a backside flip over the hip and the one I landed was terrible, kickflip off the little kicker then noseslide the flat ledge, a bad kickflip from the orange kicker up onto the hip, posed some kick back tails on it, somewhat close to nollie tre the hip. Basically I sucked. Jack wasn’t hyped on how he skated, but man, hardflip, beat me to nollie tre, back smith the flat ledge, his kickflips over the hip were seriously amazing, varial heel the hip, rick flip too! I’m sure I’m forgetting a lot. Jack and I both said we didn’t skate terrible, but weren’t happy with how we skated. Jake on the other hand was stoked. Good for you Jake. Ha ha.

(setup 8.3 null curby deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.8 custom titanium, stock bushings, 51mm spitfire 101a F4 classic shape, lakai atlantic b/w size 11.5, xero thin insoles)
(pain level 4/10)