Went to the school during a lunch break in the sunny hot part of the day. Made the slightest change to my setup, 8.25 axles. Felt infinitely better. I wore my last resorts which were more comfy too. I only skated about 30 minutes. I didn’t skate great, but I did get some of the basic kickflip flippers and was close on some heelflips.

(setup 7/10 8.25 null time warp, null grip, thunder team hollow 148, spifire f4 99a radial slim green, last resort cm002 brown size 11.5 with currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 4/10)

Was sore, side hurting, not overly motivated but it was so nice out after the rain. That is until I went skating. It looked like it would rain more, but instead it just got incredibly windy. For a while on the side of the school I was able to avoid it behind the trees. I had put 8″ team hollows on my 8.25. I almost fell on my first push. I went on to think the setup was okay at times, but really it felt way too small for me. I couldn’t heelflip it which was weird. I had gotten 7 kickflip variations pretty quickly then stalled out and the wind kicked in something fierce so I left.

(setup 3/10 8.25 null time warp, null grip, thunder team hollow 147, spifire f4 99a radial slim green, new balance numeric 430 b/w size 12 half insole and currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 4/10)

Stopped by dog park on the way home from work. I was super exhausted but I could see on maps that traffic was terrible so why not let the traffic die down? I had nothing, hated my setup change. Had some okay noeslides, but other than that completely eliminated slappy/ace highs from my consideration.

(setup 8.25 slaces)
(pain level 6/10)

Was tired and sore, but Dave had a bit of time to skate so I met him at Valmont. But when I got there it was overrun by striders and bikes. In fact, one little kid ran into me as I stood by the entrance to the park. It didn’t hurt, but what the heck. Dave was skating the bank to curb. He did like a million back pivots and kickflips and then would get a backside flip. I took too many tries to get a no comply to tail, front pivot and front 50. We both did nollie back tails too, Dave’s was actually good though. I posed a lot of flippers. Dave left and I had the whole park to myself but I was beat. Did a line around the park like boardslide a flat bar, front 50 the lurb, crooks the bench, back 50 the curb, halfcab noseslide the green box. Then I was complete toast.

(setup 2/10 null time warp 8.25, null grip, slappy lights 8.25 indy 92a bushings, spitfire f4 99a radial slim green 51mm, new balance numeric 430 b/w size 12 half insole and currex runpro insole)
(pain level 7/10)

Left Boulder and it was cloudy, cool and looked like it was going to rain. Got to Broomfield and the sun had come out and remained sunny the four hours we were there. I got there the same time as Dave and Rob. Kyle was there. Luzius and Cass would come too. It was a fun crew, everyone seemed to skate pretty hard and good. It was cool catching up with Kyle and seeing him skate so well even though he’s had some gnarly disease. Didn’t get to see Luzius skate a whole lot, but saw a casual manual or two. Cass had some poppy kickflips, good noseslides and 50s both ways. Rob had manuals, front boards, g turns, fakie bigs to nollie shoves, nollie lip, good seeing him shredding. I had better luck with flip tricks and would get quite a few including a questionable treflip. Struggled with front 50s though and barely got one into the bank. Hucked some treflip noseslides because why not. Dave was beast mode as usual. He had a line near the end of boardslide the brick qp, front 50 back 180 out the bump to ledge then kickflip into the bank. Also lots of other tricks on the brick qp, great slappy variations, so much more that I’m forgetting. It was a fun session, good peoples.

(setup 6/10 null time warp 8.25, null grip, slappy lights 8.25 indy 92a bushings, spitfire f4 99a radial slim green 51mm, new balance numeric 430 b/w size 12 half insole and currex runpro insole)
(pain level 3/10)

After a couple days of feeling sick I slowly got ready for skating and met Cass at Broomfield park. I had 8.25 with Thunders. Liked the 8.25, hated the Thunders. Skated mostly like dookie. Cass smoked me in SKATE. The only thing I liked was a first try heelflip, but I got letters on fakie flip, halfcab flip, b/s flip, argh. After SKATE I kind of just worked on a line until I got it. Crooks the black ledge, noseslide to fakie the bank to ledge, halfcab flip on flat, nollie back tail the blue lurb. It made me happy. I felt worn out after that so I went home and napped. Cass looked good on the board. He had some solid 50s both ways, maybe a back 180 nosegrind.

(setup 3/10 null time warp 8.25, null grip, thunder hollow lite 148, spitfire f4 99a radial slim green 51mm, new balance numeric 430 b/w size 12 half insole and currex runpro insole)
(pain level 4/10)

On a very nice day I went to blue skies for an hour during lunch as I thought it would rain later. I hadn’t exercised much and felt incredibly off. I also had a new board, different trucks and wore different shoes. So I guess all things considered it wasn’t terrible. I had some okay noeslides to fakie on a taller ledge followed by switch front nose on the flat bar. But I couldn’t get a flipper after. Did some ollies to fakie low on the bank followed by halfcab noseslide. Got a crooks on the low ledge. One ollie over the lowest part of the dragon rail that did not come easy.

After more meetings, a run to LOCO Dave and I met Will at Frederick. It was a nice night at first, but some showers and wind did come through (although never stopped skating). I had gotten new shoes which felt better, but I did still get very sore. Which is probably more due to having already skated and then sat down for several hours at work. Anyway, warming up actually felt alright though. We were all doing our own things as it looked like rain would come in quickly. Will was popping up the euro to manual and got really close to popping into the far euro. I was enjoying some back 50s on the double bank to curb followed by nollie front 180 out of the bank. Nollies were really working. Jumping was not though. I struggled to do anything beyond that really. Maybe a kickflip to fakie, hucked some bs double flips over the hip that weren’t too close. Dave was doing lung blunt slides on the bank and of course got better at them the wetter the park got. He also had a line of back tail the bank to curb then varial flip out of the bank. The whole process was full of other surprises like back tail back 360 out. Then we were treated to Heroki and Noah showing up and absolutely destroying the place in seconds. They are incredible.

(setup 4/10 null time warp 8.3, jessup ultra, venture 5.8 v8 titanium hanger bones medium bushings, 52mm spitfire f4 99a classic 99a orange/black, first park last resort cm002 frederick new balance 430s both size 12 both with gamechanger painful insoles)
(pain level 7/10)

On a hot day I went to York St to meet Cass, Jeff and Kyle. We were all quite sore, especially Kyle as he got broke off the day before. We did a lot of talking, but some skating too. Cass had some nice grinds both ways on the qp ledge gap. Jeff good grinds on the bank to pool coping then slappy grinds/slides on the long slappy curb. Kyle did some long back 50s the diy qps and some good slappy crooks. I had almost nothing, maybe a hurricane on a qp.

Then we went to the science museum. Well, I went first while the others got food. I met Gordon who had been skating there a while. He was shredding 50s, 5-0s, noseslides. I was really struggling, but managed a few things like very slow front 50, crooks, noseslides, got switch noseslide 270 shove and close to nollie front tail 270 shove. Jeff had some solid 50s, crooks, tailslides almost some others, he was just feeling it out. JJ showed, did some great tricks immediately like halfcab crooks, nosegrinds and back nosegrinds 180. Ryan came and tried fakie hospital tail. Messed up.

All in all one of those days where it was fun to be out with a great crew, but the skating itself wasn’t top notch.

(setup 3/10 null 8.3, jessup ultra, indy forged hollow 149, 51mm spitfire f4 99s radial slim green, splay rev lt b/w size 12 remind insoles)
(pain level 8/10)

On a warm morning I met Jack at Baker ledge. It was clear again. Eric would show after a bit. Jack didn’t have the magic manuals going right away this time, but would get some. I had a setup change of 8.3 and Indys and initially really liked it. I somehow started off pretty good, then kind of fell off as I got more sore and tired. But I had manuals, first try crooks, first try halfcab flip (neither of which I could get again), got a nose manual when Eric rolled up. Got some ride on crooks off the manny pad again and somehow backed one with a back 50 on the ledge. Was hyped to get a kickflip up the pad then ride on crooks. Eric got manuals pretty quick, almost onto the ride on grind. Jack had kickflips off the pad. Eric almost had heelflips up. I made myself get a crappy b/s flip up the pad before we moved on.

Went to the little manny pad, but got the boot pretty quick. I had wallied up the red ledge which was pretty fun. Jack got a manual.

So we went and hid under engineering building. Eric got a really good heelflip into the first bank. I got slappy crook then kickflip into the second one eventually. Jack had front board to fakie on the ledge, kickflip into it, some noseslide stuff. I also did a bad nollie back tail, noseslide 270, sw front nose and sw front nose 270. It was a fun session. I was so incredibly sore after though.

(setup 4/10 null 8.3, jessup ultra, indy forged hollow 149, 51mm spitfire f4 99s radial slim green, splay rev lt b/w size 12 remind insoles)
(pain level 6/10)

After work wasn’t feeling too motivated to skate so I played basketball with Ollie for a while. Which is probably the worst thing to do as it makes me more sore than anything. But it was really nice out and I felt like at least rolling around the school. I started on the side. The Splays really started to feel thin, frail. I had a smaller setup. It felt much better, but felt really dumb when I would land slappy crooks and my back foot was hanging off the board so much. Oh well. My lack of motivation and soreness from basketball really showed. Got an axle stall on the bigger rock in the back. Did a few slappies, a kickflip or two. Tried a line for a while of nollie or ollie on the weird shed bank, slappy crook, treflip. Got pretty close, but everytime I really committed to the tre it didn’t spin around enough. Argh.

(setup 6/10 8.25 null flaherty, pj ultragrip, indy 144 titanium 92a bushings, spitfire f4 99a classic orange/black 52mm, splay rev lt b/w size 12 footprint 5mm flat kingfoam insole)
(pain level 5/10)