I picked up Neil and Rob and we met Garrett and Sean at Fredeick park. We had two birthdays to celebrate. Neil turning 49 and Garrett turning 23. That’s a 26 year difference. Skateboarding rules like that. I had new shoes that felt mostly great, but started to feel too large as they broke in. I barely remember this session for some reason. Garrett was killing it birthday style. The back 3 kickflip and nollie heel 270 were money. Sean’s ollies over the pyramid as a setup to 50 the bank to ledge were so casual. Rob was shredding as usual and was on the double bank to curb right away. He did a manual to boardslide too. Neil was digging the park. His one foot off the kicker to quick nose manual to ollie up front shove off was sick. Look for it in the full video Neil makes. I skated okay, the kickflip on the bank took way too long, the noseslides were scarier than they should be.

Then us old dudes went back into Longmont and hit Rocky Mountain. I got really frustrated at first trying the old warm up line of drop in, slappy crooks to fakie, fakie ollie, switch front noseslide. Almost threw my board on the roof ha ha. But I would feel better after a while and skate pretty hard. Got a few flippers, but struggled to get kickflips up the curb or up on the ledge. At one point I did 3 f/s halfcab flips in a row (although there was lots of tic tac involved). No treflips either. Neil had some knee pain, but put it together when it mattered most. That halfcab noseslide is so good. Rob dazzled us with the back 50 to back lip. Also had manuals, front boards and much more.

(setup 8.3 null vhs, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.8 cast base titanium hanger, bones 52mm 99a stf v3, new balance numeric 440highs b/w size 12 half insole)
(pain 4/10)

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