Some Saturdays I wake up feeling some weird pressure about skating. This was one of them. We were headed to the Springs with no real plans of where to skate although I had thought of two tricks I wanted down there. The gap to noseslide and the noseslide 270 shove in a line. Sean, Kevin and I went right to Manitou, but the shop was closed. So we ended up at the high school with the perfect long ledge, good flat and it’s the spot with the gap to noseslide I wanted to do. So the pressure mounted quickly and I just felt kind of weird. Sean and Kevin were getting it quickly with noseslides, crooks (Kevin), 50s. There was a weird wood object that worked perfectly as a wallride initially, then we rotated it for wallies. I didn’t have much success with flippers, but did noseslide, noseslide fakie and maybe a crooks jib on the ledge pretty quick along with some fun frontside bank rides. I couldn’t ollie up onto the ledge, but I did pose a few gap to noseslides which didn’t feel quite as possible as before. Sean’s back 5-0 was so good. We probably would have skated there a really long time, but Jake came and brought security with him. Ha, not really, but we did get kicked out right when Jake showed up.

So we drove halfway back home to meet Jack, Joe, Bo and Hayden at a school in the north part of the Springs. Jake was so bummed when we pulled in and it was a rail spot. I felt bad. So rather than go check out the rail Jake and I went to look at something we could skate. And we found a fun little loading dock area. I mean it’s not a destination spot, but it would offer some fun for the time being. Hayden, Sean and Bo would join us. It’s funny looking at a spot initially and then what happens after a few minutes of skating it. At first we just did tail drop springs off the loading dock into the “bank” (which was really almost flat). Hayden, Bo and Sean had some ollies up to manual that looked hard. I had a nose stall to fakie that was kinda fun. Sean and Hayden did the quick boardslide drops. We setup a wallride. Man Hayden had some super smooth wallrides. Jake and I ended up doing some fun lines. Mine is above. Just riding off that loading dock with speed was hard because of a crack, but it was fun. The wallie took me a few tries. Jake would go on to do it with a 180 wallie was was pretty sick. Then we went and watched the hammer fest on the rail which unfortunately ended with Jack hurting himself.

Then we went to Broadmoor ditch. That thing sucks. Ha. I tried nollie bigspins for a bit, then gave up and filmed. Joe would also get frustrated by not landing tricks. I don’t think Sean actually landed anything either even though he was close to a banger. Hayden quickly did halfcab, cab then battled beyond a cab for the sickness. Kevin would battle nollie flips to fakie forever followed by switch front 3. He was so close to giving up, but luckily he didn’t because he ended up doing it oh so good. Bo did a ride on front 5-0 then battled kickflip out for awhile. And he was really really close! Then we had dinner. I got home late and sad about how terribly I skated, but had fun with friends.

(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 table shape 99a, new balance numeric 212 cake size 12 with footprint mid elite insoles)
(pain level 4/10)