After driving from Grand Junction I chilled for a bit then rushed off to dog park on a nice cool afternoon. Valmont was empty so I started there. I had changed my setup to 8.3 with ace 44 lows. I liked it more than the previous setup, but wasn’t exactly in love with it. I had some fun on the top section. Did a little roll out on a weird little rounded qp, rock ‘n roll the tight qp, back 50 the main qp, curve around then front disaster it. Did a few variations of that which were all fun. Had some good feeling ollies over the euro, kickflip to fakie did not come easy on the bank.

Then I went to the dog park which was mostly empty too. I skated alright, cruised around faster than normal, didn’t land much flippers. Had a fun line of front 50 180 out, halfcab noseslide the bench, back 50 the curb. After a while I went in on fakie 50 creepy spin out. I kind of landed a couple, but not good enough to hand off to Dave. Fun session. I skated the ledges okay, transition pretty well, flatground not good at all.

(null 8.3 vhs, jessup ultragrip, ace 44 af1 lows hard bushing, 51mm spitfire f4 101a classic, new balance numeric 440 brown size 12 half insoles)
(pain level 3/10)

After a long day of driving and seeing some amazing sights I went out for a quick cruise at the skate friendly Colorado Mesa University. I felt very disoriented and hated my setup beyond believe. The good lower angle iron ledges near the student center were dark so I moved on and found a perfect rail off a drop. I couldn’t make myself commit. I ended up at the spot in the video. It was pretty sick, but I was skating like dookie. The slam hurt way more than it should have. After some more cruising I did a 1 mph kickflip then did the lamest ollie off a 3 stair ever. I need to street skate more.

(setup null mc hesher 8.25, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.6 v-cast with bones medium bushings, 51mm bones pj 103a v1, new balance numeric 440 brown size 12 half insole)
(pain level 3/10)

While visiting my aunt I had some time in the morning so I went to check out the skatepark. There was a crazy rain storm a couple days prior so the middle of the park was mostly full of sand/mud/water. Which was fine because it was lumpy quarterpipes and steep banks mostly anyway. The outside of the park was smooth and had several ledges. My body was thrown off from all the driving and sitting around, but I made myself jump. Had some okay warm ups doing some slow basics. Could barely ollie onto the lowest ledge shown in the clip and barely got some super slow front 50s. Had one great feeling heelflip, halfcab flip. After a while I went in on fakie 50 shove out and I went nuts trying. I was so angry, hating my setup beyond believe. Never got a clean one. Then I needed to go. I really wanted to keep skating. It was a cool park, the ledges are amazing. There was a fun little flyout zone too that I had some fun kickflips out of.

(setup null mc hesher 8.25, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.6 v-cast with bones medium bushings, 51mm bones pj 103a v1, new balance numeric 440 brown size 12 half insole)
(pain level 3/10)

Went to Golden park early on my to meet my mom on a road trip through Utah. It was quite cold and windy and mostly miserable. I didn’t like my setup and I had new shoes. My warm up line was noseslide the main ledge, turn around on the wallie thing, kickflip fakie on the mellow bank. Also did crooks the ledge and tried to line out to kickflip the hip and couldn’t commit to the kickflip. Flip tricks went decent on flat which was the one saving grace. I couldn’t front 50 one of the benches in the small section. I did ollie on to one and manual the pad, couldn’t nose manual though. I ended with a fun line of halfcab noseslide one bench, crooks the next, bad front 50 the pad.

(setup null mc hesher 8.25, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.6 v-cast with bones medium bushings, 51mm bones pj 103a v1, new balance numeric 440 brown size 12 half insole)
(pain level 3/10)