On a rainy day we met at Square State. I wore some gamechanger insoles, took a while to get used to reduction in board feel and arch support. I mean all I really did was a second try kickflip up the euro, a kickflip to fakie up the two levels, almost a b/s flip up the euro. Kyle had some amazing kickflips to fakie grinds on the edge of the upper level. My foot really started to hurt so I just sat and filmed. Brian went in hard on impossibles and never quite got one. I really wanted to see it. Kyle had a really good treflip and bigflip before going in on big heels and would get like 10 of them. Christian though, would do so many fakie tricks like first try halfcab heel, f/s halfcab heel, rick flip, fakie heel, kickflip, back heel, impossible, and probably a lot more.

(setup 6/10 8.3 keyhole 2, cheap pepper grip, venture 5.8 v8 titanium hanger ace bushings, 53mm snot franky wheels 99a, strike mvmnt transit street trainer black/gum size 12 foot print gamechanger insoles)
(pain level 8/10 right foot arch)

On my 28th anniversary I had a couple hours to skate and chose to hit some random street spots. Kind of had no idea, but just wanted to head out to Araphoe and find something different. And I got lucky finding a new spot. But wow it was weird. steeper concrete bank, mellow asphalt hump. I don’t know it was really hard to find a way to skate it. I did try a line for a while of a flatground fakie flip then the switch nose jib then varial flip after riding down the bank. Didn’t get the varial flip, but the fakie flip was a struggle so I moved on. The kickflip onto the upper level was way harder than I thought it would be. Took me quite a while. Then I went to the next spot. Did a couple basic stalls and the b/s flip. Did a few weird front 50s on a curb nearby that were not cool or fun. Then a nose slide at a nearby angle iron spot that could probably be waxed up and better than it is. My right foot was really hurting by the end. Fun day though, fun night with the Mighty LZA.

(setup 6/10 8.3 keyhole 2, cheap pepper grip, venture 5.8 v8 titanium hanger ace bushings, 53mm snot franky wheels 99a, strike mvmnt transit street trainer black/gum size 12)
(pain level 7/10)

Met up with Cass and Garrett at Denver park of all places. It was popping, took a while to even remotely get going. Cass was trying harder stuff quickly though tried to front shove the wedge drop. I had some fun on the east side lining the ledges. Did noseslide to fakie the taller one then switch front nose on the lower ledge. Then noseslide to fakie followed by a terrible halfcab noseslide. Got a few crooks on the taller one too before a crew of bikers decided it would be a good place to eat dinner. Garrett had crooks easy, back tails. We played a game of SKATE in the main area. I was out first, slammed hard on a pop shove of all things. Cass landed a lot of tricks, but Garrett matched hardflip and went on to take the win. Then we had a really fun night at the NIB premiere.

(setup 6/10 8.3 keyhole 2, cheap pepper grip, venture 5.8 v8 titanium hanger ace bushings, 53mm snot franky wheels 99a, strike mvmnt transit street trainer black/gum size 12 no insoles)
(pain level 5/10)

Was tired after some early morning work callouts, but it was so nice out so I wanted to skate. Went to the slappy curb across the street before dinner. Mostly just did slappies, a couple ollies into grinds, a kickflip or two. Got slappy front crooks and regular backside slappy which have gotten so hard for me.

(setup 7/10 8.3 keyhole 2, cheap pepper grip, venture 5.8 v8 titanium hanger ace bushings, 53mm snot franky wheels 99a, strike mvmnt transit street trainer black/gum size 12 no insoles)
(pain level 5/10)