Went across the street before dinner on what should have been a nice night, but the wind was kicking. Did some slappies while skating some slappies and at no point enjoyed it. Tried some switch front slappies and could not quite commit.

setup who cares it sucked

Back to Broomfield, but it was like 40 degrees cooler. Met up with the 98 dudes and more. At the park was Dan, Garrett, Scott, Gordon, Taylor, Kyle, Ladd, Jason, so many people I’m sure I’m missing like 10 people. Dan was a demo machine, seriously rips, such good style, such good trick selection. Garrett was ripping too, some banger lines. Jason vs Ladd frontside flips over the bump to bar were cool. Don’t think ladd ever landed it though. Jason did so many cool tricks including kickflip back nosegrind shove. I myself felt pretty bad on the board, well, actually boards because I changed half way through. I was unable to halfcab flip on the mellow bank until I switched to the 8.5 with T2s. And it felt good except grinds. Gordon was ripping flippers and said this is the year we learn tricks. I tried a few switch tres, was not close. Not so close to nollie tre either. It was a fun session. I didn’t land much. Everyone else did though.

(setups 8.3 thunder teams and 8.5 with thunder t2s both kinda meh but the 8.5 less meh)
(pain level 3/10)

I’m writing this entry on a Monday after skating Broomfield park both days over the weekend. So it all blurs as to who I skated with and what people did. Cass and Taylor were there when I arrived. Garrett would come after a while, Will showed about the time we were toast. I don’t remember anything even decent about my skating. Took too long do a sw noseslide 270 shove, nothing felt good. Didn’t even do 50s really. I played a game of SKATE with Cass near the start that he won and I didn’t land anything. I was wearing Splays again. Less pain, but also less confidence. I tried halfcab flip noseslides for a while and they weren’t the furthest from possible. Cass is still the bank flyout king with kickflip, treflip, hardflip and b/s flip I think. Taylor had some mean crooks combos. Will showed and was got to nollie noseslide right way. Pretty sick.

(setup 3/10 8.3 null keyhole 2, pepper grip, thunder team hollow 149, snot franky 53mm pink, splay rev lts green size 11.5 306c insole and currex runpro insole)
(pain level 4/10)

On a warm afternoon I met up with Will at his namesake spot. We hit the main manny pad area for a while. I had a christmas complete – 8.3 thunders 53s. Meh. We skated the low part of the ledge for a while. Will doing real tricks with pop like 50s and tailslides both ways. I did a lot of no pop tricks. And my setup felt like it had no pop so that wasn’t helping my lack of pop. Then we went up to start working on manuals. I got a first try manual then couldn’t do anything. Will had manualed down pretty far, but not til the end. I CU cop came and was super nice, but told us not to grind basically. So we played a game of SKATE that I lost really badly on. I think I did get a few flippers though. I started to get crazy knee pain. We went and looked at other spots, but didn’t skate anything. My knees hurt so bad walking home that I almost took off the Foy Cups and threw them in the creek.

(setup 3/10 8.3 null keyhole 2, pepper grip, thunder team hollow 149, snot franky 53mm pink, new balance numeric 306 cup grey size 12 half insole and currex runpro insole)
(pain level 7/10)