Needed to bring boards to Mountainside in CO Springs. Nullers weren’t in so it was just Jake and I which was totally great. I had a setup change, 8.3 with venture/thunder trucks. Don’t ask, it wont happen again. We started at the OG park but there was some snow. We tried to warm up on the ledge there. I was hating my setup, but more so the shoes. I spotted a ledge across the street and we went over there. I couldn’t get a good crooks and struggled a lot but did have a great feeling halfcab flip. Jake was ripping and had some good ones.

After the skateshop run we ended up at a DIY neither of us had heard of or been to before. It looks like a dream spot and we were super hyped to skate it. As with any spot it took a while to figure out what to do. I had changed into some NB 306s and was much more comfortable. We rattled off some tricks on the parking block qp. Jake did front tail, front d and pivot fakie on the big qp. I had fun lining out some basics. Then battled the stupid little front 50. I made myself do 5 of them, it was not easy and they were all slow and bad. We ended on some more parking block qp tricks. Jake beat me to front feeble, I beat him to hurricane.

(setup 8.3 null vhs, jessup ultragrip, venture v-cast baseplate thunder hollow 149 hanger royal bushings, 51mm pj bones v1 103a, nike sb sad dunks/nb# 306 with dunk insoles)
(pain level 6/10 those dunks seriously hurt more than most vulcs why do people like them)

Met up with Cass, Paul, Jake at Valmont park and cruised it for a while. We hit the pond area for a bit. Jake rattled off tricks that aren’t easy to do on that little transition like front tail, back blunt maybe even front disaster. Cass had one really long back 50. I did some axle stalls, kickflips to fakie and a front 50. The rest of the park I didn’t do much, especially after I got some serious ghost pop and couldn’t get up the euro comfortably. Cass struggled to get a kickflip over the hip. Jake had pole jam and I think pivot fakie on the volcano. Paul was shredding. Really nice back 180 over the euro hip.

Over to the plaza we met up with Jack and Eric. Those two are always charging. Cass and I played a game of SKATE that I ended up just quitting because we couldn’t land anything. I hit the wall on the 8.5/5.8. I mostly blame the Dunks though, they totally suck for skateboarding. No idea how so many people love them. The amount of pain I got from them was crazy, way more than a NB vulc. After the game I didn’t even have the desire to skate anymore, neither did Cass. I didn’t see a whole lot of other action. Eric did a rad wallie back 180 on the Natas spinner.

(setup 2/10 null 8.5 vhs, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.8 v-cast plate titanium hanger royal bushings no big washer flat small washer, 51mm bones pj stf v1 103a washers outside, nike sb sad dunks size 12 half nb 425 insoles)
(pain level 4/10 dunks suck)