It was a warmish day, but as soon as that sun set it was crisp and a slight breeze felt cold. I met Rob, Darin, Sean, Jake and Kevin at Broomfield after work. Right out of the gate I struggled and would struggle super bad the whole time with the exception of some okay crooks on the black box. Rob, Sean and Darin were there before me. Sean and Darin were playing flippers. Sean rattled off a lot of them with so much style. The park was pretty crowded, but we were still treated with some Rob ripping. I don’t remember a lot of specifics from anyone. This seems to happen more when I’m in a funk. But this one was extra bad, I couldn’t even hardly land kickflip and didn’t get past fakie flip. I guess I had a front 180 into the little bank then halfcab noseslide first try. Rob was doing his laps around, back 50s, front noses, crooks, halfcab noseslides, boardslides, no comply back 360, etc. Darin took awhile to get a fakie flip, then him and Jake killed the quartapotty. Jake also did some front tails and 5-0s on the black ledge rather casually. Darin did back blunt on the qp, Jake did front noseblunt. I saw Darin trying back tail and fakie back tail on the black ledge. Good to see him getting past the qp. Jake and I tried f/s halfcab noseslides for awhile, he got closer. Kevin showed and did some of his tricks real quick like nosegrinds, switch manual, nollie nosegrinds. I did a fakie pivot fakie on the qp to make Jake happy. Then Kevin, Jake and I played hardflip for a bit. Kevin was mad at his foot for not flicking the way it used to. Jake made us laugh by wondering how f/s flip and hardflips were similar, because the board does the exact same thing silly. He’s into trying that trick more. I had a few commits, but never got both feet on. Keving ended on switch flip and I tried to as well, but didn’t have it. I’m over Thunders. I had no pop and my flip tricks disappeared so screw it.

(setup 8.25 303 deck, jessup ultragrip, thunder 148 HL, venom 88a big bushing, 91a small bushing, spitfire 52mm 99a f4 classic shape, 3 washers inside each axle, new balance numeric 212 mustard 11.5, footprint mid elite insoles)
(pain level 4/10 cold/knees/feet)