askate journal: more dog park fun and some rocky mountain with dave (feb 28, 2026)
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)