On a cold and snowy day I went to Longmont on a LOCO run. It was flurrying, but let up so I randomly went to Skyline which I haven’t skated in years. It felt even colder than I imagined right around freezing. The ledges seemed infinitely taller than I remembered. I did not feel good on my board nor did I like my board even though it did flip really well. I had an early warm up line of noseslide the downhill one, kickflip, noseslide to fakie the tall one. But it had taken me a while to get to that point. Took a while to do a switch front nose on the downhill one and it was terrible. I got a treflip that might be the biggest stretch of a make to date. I had some alright halfcab flips and b/s flips using the hill. Remotely close to a few cab flips. Couldn’t get a heelflip or a crooked grind on the taller ledge. I tried like a million ollied onto the tall pad and barely got one. I was trying crooks on the downhill when a car pulled up and it was Bernie! Great hearing his voice again and it hyped me up enough to finally get a little crook. I tried a bunch of noseslide to crook and only one attempt was even remotely close. Eventually I left with the intention skating more, but Longmont HS had a bunch of youth roaming around. Tough day at the office.

(setup 4/10 8.25 pmg, jessup ultragrip, thunder hollow light 148 royal bushings, 51mm spitfire f4 99a classic, new balance numeric 272 teal size 12 half insole and currex run pro insole)
(pain level 3/10 felt good until the end)

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