Feeling incredibly sore I went to Broomfield on another nice Feb morning. Met up with Bratcher, Salty, Cass, Jeff, Nick, Garrett, Joe, Eric, lots of old dudes. I rocked some cupsoles and it helped a little. A lot happened so here’s some highlights. Nick hardflip the six after not doing it, going to a different park and trying it off a ledge and then coming back. Eric lipslides, first try heelflip, front 5-0s and front tails. Bratcher front boards, 50s. Salty mean slappies on the bank to curb, boardslide the lurb. Cass did two perfect kickflip back 50s in a row on the lurb, then a couple more that weren’t totally locked in. Also several hardflips. I had a fun line of crooks the black ledge, noseslide to fakie the bump to ledge then a fakie bigflip on flat. Hucked several halfcab flip noseslides which felt close on a few of them. Garrett arrived a couple of hours late and hurt his back on his warm up routing. Joe did front crooks to fakie into the bank then fakie back tail heelflip out. So insane! Oh yeah, wearing cupsoles felt so insanely different and I changed my setup around trying to find what worked best and landed on the 8.3 with thunders which I would not say I was sold on.

(setups 8.25 with slace, 8.5 with t2, 8.3 with thunder team hollow, converse fastbreak white size 12 with half 574v insole and currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 7/10)

On another very warm February Saturday morning I went to dog park and met up with Jack, Jesse, Eric and Paul. It was a fun session. Oh at one point we were treated to seeing Boulder legend Elijah skate for the first time in a few years. And he still looks like a natural doing 50s, front boards, manuals like it was nothing. Eric ripped too with some fast 50s, 5-0s, front tails, lips. Close to 180 nose manuals. Jesse slammed on a pop shove manual attempt, but was the man and front 180d the hydrant off the kicker. Paul lined out the kicker with 180 the grate then halfacb off the kicker. And ollied into it. Bratcher was rattling tricks off the kicker. Fakie ollies every try, halfcab, sw 180, melon, close to nollie back 180. I took a while to get front shove, but it felt great. Then equally as long to get kickflip which also felt good even though it was a weird one. I had some okay crooks again. Paul, Jesse and I played a game of SKATE in which I got letters on front shove, sw shove, fakie flip and fakie heel which was the only one that wasn’t upsetting. Tried a bunch of noseslide 270 shoves which weren’t too close. Good session dudes.

Then drove to Longmont to sell boards to LOCO and ended up skating with Dave at Rocky Mountain. I was so sore it was insane. I definitely should not have been skating. But we did and we tried hard. Dave messed up his toe and was still charging. Crazy. Had some slappies on the curb. Dave did a few lines of course. Some that started with nollie to fakie on the bank. One near the end of the session: noseslide the ledge, manual a median on the bank, slappy crook. I did some ultra basics on the ledge, some 50s on the curb. But everything hurt so bad. I tried a line for a while of the nollie 270 shove on the bank then front shove back 50 on the curb. But I never committed to the curb trick. Would change it to slappy crook. I called it after that.

(setup 5/10 null 8.25 sean, jessup pj grip, slace 8.25 trucks, 52mm bones v1 stf 103a, splay rev lts green size 12 with remind impact cush insoles)
(pain level 7/10)

After a brutal week of work I got out on a really nice, but breezy at times Friday afternoon. Will was at Valmont kickflipping the euro. I putzed around. Not remembering much just tried to do lots of ollies on banks and stuff.

Then we went over to dog park, Ted had showed up. As well as about 50 college students for a CU skate gathering. Their youthful energy was contagious. I know Will as busting his normal ledge/manual moves. I was somehow 2-2 on manuals on the little pad which is ultra rare for me these days. Somehow the lane with the benches and flat bar remained chill so we seemed to stick around there for a while. I was happy to get the wallie/crooks/bs flip a couple of times. Will had never skated the tall bench before and did like 5 tricks quickly. The nosegrinds were nuts. Ted popped up into 50s easily too. Somehow I’m not remembering much else, but we did skate and have fun.

(setup 5/10 null 8.25 sean, jessup pj grip, slace 8.25 trucks, 52mm bones v1 stf 103a, splay rev lts green size 12 with remind impact cush insoles)
(pain level 4/10)