Up early before working later again so I went skating. I felt like something totally different so I ended up at Big Arvada. It’s been a couple years I think since I’ve been there. I was surprised when I pulled in around 7:45 by how few people there were. Only 2 other skaters. And one of them even seemed much older than me. The park would have a steady stream of other people joining, but never got crowded when I left shortly after 9. My legs felt rested after a two day break and my ankle seemed fine. After a bit of putzing around I got the first warm up line. Ollie onto the manny pad, ollie up the little euro, kickflip to fakie the mellow blue bank. Then I did front 50 the little manny pad (very slowly I hate how little confidence I have on that trick now), b/s flip on a bank, kickflip to fakie on the next bank. That felt cool. Then I did halfcab noseslide then 360 flip to fakie on the mellow blue bank. I struggled with halfcab noseslides and it was more of a 270 flip when I got it, but I was still happy. Then I settled in on the fakie bigflip on the bank. It came pretty quickly and made me happy even if it wasn’t rotated all the way around. Next I did the noseslide which a bit. I only had a few minutes left so I just kinda did some bank to curb axle stalls/front rock and a couple basics on the tiny qp up top. Oh and I took a couple scary runs in the snake run. Really fun session, mixing it up is good for me. Landing new tricks feels pretty magical too.

(setup 8.38 null jack night skate, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.8 cast plate titanium hanger no big washer, bones 52mm stf v1, new balance numeric b/w/blue 212 size 12 with nike sb zoom air insoles)
(pain level 2/10 !! first time in a long time)

With rain drops still sputtering I went to campus hoping it would stay dry.  It did. Barely. I started at the little yellow lurb to warm up.  What a fun little spot.  Pretty quickly I settled in on trying nollie bsts shove and front nosegrind 180.  I would get neither, but was at least close to the nosegrind 180.  I started to get really frustrated trying them so decided I’d roll out instead.  Ended up at the stadium bank.  Did a few shoves to warm up.  Then 5 kickflips to fakie to help break in the new 212s.  A few b/s flips.  Then tried big flip for too long.  Fakie flip took a bit.  Halfcab flips came easy.  Then I tried a GleNBD for awhile.  Fakie bigflip.  Never done it on a bank before.  Didn’t get it although was kinda close.  It would be easier on a steeper bank with a better runway.  Next I went to the fitness center area determined to do a 360 flip then ollie one of the little rocks.  And by 360 flip I mean 270 flip.  Ha.  I got a few cruddy ones, but then a CU truck pulled up and prevented the ollie.  Oh well.  I did one slappy on a highly waxed curb by the hill after this then went home tired and sore.  I had kinda rolled my ankle on one of the 360 flips.  At the time I knew it hurt, but didn’t think it would be much. As I write this it’s worse than I thought, but should only be a couple days.

(setup 8.38 null jack night skate, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.8 cast plate titanium hanger no big washer, bones 52mm stf v1, new balance numeric b/w/blue 212 size 12 with nike sb zoom air insoles)
(pain level 3/10)