Will, Rob, Dave and I rolled to Denver on a nice morning. Salty and Bratcher were there, but left pretty quickly. Cass and Jake were there, Kyle arrived shortly after us. My foot did not feel good. Cass quickly learned all the blunts and almost added blunt back shove to fakie. He did the blunt front shove twice. Kyle did like 100 tricks on the little qp. Dave took some slams getting used to the long parking block spine, but man he did some cool stuff. Was great seeing Rob on the board, cruising, carving. I was really struggling. Did get a warm up line I liked though of back 50 the little qp, wallie the low part of the spine, noseslide the ledge, crook the ledge right on the edge. Then I tried a million kickflip axle stalls. Some were close, most were not. It was really frustrating to not get it. But after giving up I did have fun doing some old Rampy tricks on the little qp. Fakie hurricane and fakie pivot fakie were my favs. Jake was ripping, the front pivot and pivot fakie were solid. Dave’s lines were crazy good. I lined out the front tail on the pyramid with a slappy crook and a pivot on another little qp.

Then we went to the nearby DIY warehouse. Kyle did some flatground then stopped skating. Cass did some long ride on grinds. Saw Rob bust some 180s, halfcabs and get on some front boards. Will had some cool back 50s and thought about back nosegrinds. I did the incredibly non-proper front rock then crooks and was happy to get crooks shove. Also got a first try front axle, but then couldn’t do it again. Did a crooks on the tall ledge. Dave had some long lines on the spine thing, on the qp, to long ride on grind. Then the cops came and told us to leave, but were nice and of course used to skate. So we encouraged the kickflip which was cool to see. Then we went to an overpriced hipster taco joint, but it was still fun hanging with everyone.

(setup 6/10 8.25 null kaleidoscape, pepper cheap not so good grip, venture 5.6 v.8 hollow hangers ace bushings, 50mm spitfire f4 101a tablets, vans half cab wafflecup beigh size 12 remind impact cush insoles)
(pain level 7/10 right foot pain from tennis)

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