skate journal: broomfield, westminster ledge/bank spot, safeway ledge (july 7, 2026)
Got to Broomfield park on another warm day. The crew was rob, joe, neil, sean, eric and dudes, gordon. Gordon did his high pop thing and good solid grinds. Rob got in the mix with some manuals up and around the mountain bank, boardslides and more. I made myself do 10 tricks on the lurb, but kept going and it turned into 20+ tricks which made me happy. Lots of them were no-pop tricks, but one of the last ones was front 50 shove and I really liked that one. Joe did 10 50-50 variations. Sean looked slightly rusty, but still killed it. Garrett was there with Square State and killed it.
Off to the ledge to bank spot which is way harder to skate than it looks. Neil was getting into noseslides, lined it out with front shove and got close. I kinda like the accidental manual. I took forever to do the switch nose jib, couldn’t pop it out like I wanted. No comply shove and kickflip to fakie on the bank were fun. Rob had some style carves on the bank. Joe boardslide then the back 50 variations. Eckert showed up with his crew who did a few tricks. Sean had shown and did front 50 into it easily then back 50 from the bank.
Lastly we skated Safeway while being totally beat. So beat that it took Joe like 15 tries to get a front 50 shove. He would end the session with a really good front tail. Rob had some good noseslides and stuff. Neil got up on some front 50s and more. I got a couple 50s each way. Fun way to end the day. I wish that spot was as magical as it used to be. Then we had a fun dinner after with Fuzz and Leslie.
(setup 6/10 8.25 null abstract 43, pepper g5, venture v-cast 5.6 flat top washer, 52mm bones x99 v1, vans kyle walker b/w size 12 gamechanger insoles)
(pain level 5/10)