On another cold day with flurries I met Sean at the puddle riddled dog park. I was trying to channel the anger towards the shooting into skating. It kind of worked. At times I skated hard with more drive than I’ve had in awhile. Sean was stuck on front nosegrinds on the new bench which was funny because he ended up doing like 20 in a row. He was trying lines to bump over the orange barrier. He would eventually get front 5-0 180, fakie nosegrind, halfcab manny the crack pad, kickflip a parking block, then heelflip from the decked wedge over the orange barrier. Sick line! I had got one that sounds pretty good on paper. Crooks the new bench, front 5-0 the cinder block, ollie the wedge to barrier. I would later almost get crooks, front 50 180, halfcab flip, ollie the barrier. But I had taken a weird turn and didn’t really have the speed for the ollie and kind of did the classic Glen of wallieing up and down. Some flip tricks had worked like fakie bigflip and halfcab flip. I took too long to get a halfcab noseslide. Not sure how that trick has gotten hard for me. At times I really wanted a bigger board, other times was super happy with the 8.25. Sean made himself get 4 heelflips over the barrier which wasn’t always easy with the breeze. I got into a couple switch crooks on the cinder block that would have made my day. Sean and I ended with a game of SKATE just before the snow started up again. It was one of my better games in awhile. I got kickflip, fakie flip, halfcab flip, f/s halfcab flip, 360 flip, defensive fs flip, bs flip, but since I was playing Sean I clearly still lost. He got me with halfcab heels both ways, back heel, back big and ended me with switch front shove.

(setup 8.25 null spanbauer deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.6 cast baseplate v-hollow hanger, bones medium little bushing ace big bushing, spitfire f4 52mm classic shape 99a, new balance numeric 212 cake size 12 with footprint mid elite insoles)
(pain level 4/10)

After hitting LOCO and MRKT I met with Hayden, Bo and Andy at Northside. I had changed back to cast baseplates and but washers back in my trucks to make them stiffer. It felt weird. The park was pretty wet and limiting making it not as fun as normal. We mostly hit the little metal manual pad. Andy and I took a few tries to get nose manual. Bo manualled to drop down manual up to a pallet. Hayden all kinds of 180 manual combos. I had some kickflips on the bank, but didn’t commit to kickflip fakie. Hayden and Bo played a game of SKATE so Andy and I did too. But mid game I got a call from Liz saying there was an active shooter at the King Soopers near our house. She said her and the kids were safe so at that point it seemed like I could keep skating. Andy and I finished our game getting tricks like halfcab flip and heelflip that didn’t come easy. Then Bo, Hayden and I went to Fossil. Warming up again went alright. I had some crooks, Hayden back smiths and back tails and all the frontside tricks. Bo brought the energy. Then reports started coming in that the shooting was really bad and I understandably lost my desire to skate and headed home.

(setup 8.25 null spanbauer deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.6 cast baseplate v-hollow hanger, bones medium little bushing ace big bushing, spitfire f4 52mm classic shape 99a, new balance numeric 212 cake size 12 with footprint mid elite insoles)
(pain level 4/10)