Feeling overwhelmed with setup madness I ended up just grabbing an old 8.3 with some thunders on it and completely hated it. I had gone to Southern Hills. Haven’t been there in a long time and I remember why. I mean it’s okay, but them ledges are TALL. I did some noseslides and noseslides to fakie and that was really about it.

After some lunch and setting up a new board I went looking for dry spots. I didn’t come up with much, but I ended up at dog park as I was very surprised to see it was dry and almost empty. I had put Royals on and they are pretty good. Not great as they lack pop, but I did prove a couple of things to myself. Mainly, wearing these Splay shoes I need lighter setups. I had regular manuals better than normal. Other tricks were okay. Back 50s on the curb were better than normal. Slappy crooks worked well. Had a line that was really poorly done, but sounds okay on paper. Front 50 180 the lurb, sw front nose the bench, fakie nosegrind the curb. Did halfcab flip then b/s flip first try, but regular kickflips were terrible. Did another line of fakie flip, halfcab noseslide the bench, back 50 the curb. Did more whatever stuff. Ended on a line of sw front nose the narrower metal bench then fakie front nose jib the green ledge. Oh yeah, I couldn’t front 50 it to save my life which I imagine will be a quick death to the Royals. Since I had that problem before too. I should also mention it was quite windy and cold.

(setup 6/10 8.25 null time warp, jessup ultra, royal ultralight 149, spitfire f4 99a 52mm pink/green classic, splay rev lt b/w size 12 with remind cush insoles)
(pain level 5/10)

Cass and I decided on Frederick on a Saturday as we knew it had been shoveled. Dave was hopeful to show later. Cass and I pulled in at the same time and were hyped to see Scott P, Dan and Donnie were there too. As well as other Longmont ripper JJ. We chatted a bit and got going. The weather was mostly nice, but cloud cover would cool it off a lot at times. Donne and Dan learned new tricks on the little curb to get warmed up. Nollie front crook and fakie 5-0 pop out respectively. I cruised around some and eventually spent some time in the bank to curb area. Cass was killing the back 50s on the curb. I had a kickflip to fakie that didn’t feel poppy or good. Donnie destroyed the curb area with some cool approaches to grinds and reverts. Can’t even really describe them. Dave had shown. He made light work of tailslides and boardslides too. I had a fun line of noseslide the bump to ledge then b/s flip the hip. I tried to do some ollies to fakie and stuff on the steeper bank. Donnie front 50’d the ledge on the top of it. We were all in the front area a while on the manny pads and such. Dan did fakie manual which didn’t come easy. Dave manual, but couldn’t seem to get nose manual. The crazy pop shove noseblunt slide over the pyramid was nuts. I tried a line of back 50 the curb, ollie onto the taller pad, kickflip off. Didn’t get it. Dan and JJ were manualing the tall pad like it was nothing. Cass had done front board shove on the bump to bar which was pretty amazing. I changed my line to front slash the speed reducing qp, olllie up the euro, kickflip off. took me forever, but I got it eventually. Unfortunately I cracked my tail really bad. While trying that line I had done a couple fakie bigflips over the pyramid which I was happy about. But when I went to go film it I couldn’t get it. Dave got some kickflip tail reverts over it though. Fun session. I’m sure I’m missing a lot, we were there a long time.

(setup 3/10 null hayden 8.25, jessup ultra, venture 5.6 v8 ace bushings hollow hangers, 51mm spitfire f4 99a classic, splay rev lt b/w size 12 remind cush insoles)
(pain level 4/10)