On a warm Saturday I met Kyle and Brian at Broomfield. Taylor was there initially. Some other older dudes too, some youth. After a while Donnie, Dan, Garrett, Joe too. My warm up wasn’t good, I was really struggling. Kyle was doing flippers so easily. He rips. He did the manual revert fakie manual then filmed it for a long time. I had done some boardslide transfers, but never got the manual out. Had some okay crooks and basics for me, hurricanes on the bank to curb. Did a line of hurricane, crooks the black ledge, front 50 shove the blue lurb. Brian low qp to high rock to fakie, almost blunt on the high, one footed front rock, landed on impossibles. When we got wind that the 98 dudes were showing Kyle and I hucked. Kyle was doing cool lines front nose jib off the 3 stair, nollie heel, almost treflip noseslide. I hucked a lot of halfcab heel noseslides. They were somewhat close at time, it feels very possible. That would make me so happy. Dan front boarded the double set. Garrett kick back tailed and threw his board into the tree. Donne nollie sugarcane was sick. I tried to treflip the mini board and failed.

(setup 2/10 null 20 years 8.5/14.25, jessup ultragrip, thunder hollow 149, spitfire f4 99a 52mm pink/green classic, new balance numeric 440v2 wide navy size 12 half insole and currex runpro insole)
(pain level 5/10 mostly just sore)

Went to Broomfield park after breakfast with the family. Will was there, not many others. Will did some manuals, nose manuals, switch manual, halfcab manual. All while failed to do a manual. I don’t remember much else for me, I didn’t land anything and we quit our game of SKATE since neither of us could land anything.

I proposed Safeway ledge as the dumpster was recently removed blocking the og ledge. Oh yeah, I was in a lot of back pain at Broomfield so I switched to 440s and liked them more. Weird. Will tried a couple front tail then bounced. I did a few back 50s that were really fun because it’s the only ledge I can back 50. The ground is pretty bad now, but the ledge it still okay.

Next I went to an old bank spot I haven’t been to in a few years. Maybe a decade I don’t know. It was fun though, I made myself do 10 tricks. Most were pretty easy, but it was still fun. Actually I think they were all easy, but the f/s flip took me a few tries. I tried to end it with a fakie treflip and got kinda close. Would like do get one of those!

(setup 3/10 null 20 years 8.5/14.25, jessup ultragrip, thunder hollow 149, spitfire f4 99a 52mm pink/green classic, new balance numeric 430 b/w size 12 half 574 insole and currex runpro insole)
(pain level 6/10 lower back pain)

After a work luncheon I met Dave at Erie park on a cooler day. It was actually kind of mellow as far as Lafayette goes. Seemed like we both started off kind of uninspired, but we would do some stuff. I had a setup change so was getting used to that. This is the one. Ha ha ha. 8.5 14.25 Thunder hollows. Dave had some nice tailslides on the mini qp. I had some fun wallies on the corner rock. We hit the little ledge up top for a while. Dave ripped it with noseslide to manual all the way to the bank multiple times and I think lined it out with a kickflip out of the bank. I did some okay front 50s for once, after multiple accidental 5-0s of course. Had front shove out and front 180 out too, but not to manual or even manual on the top. Dave also got switch front crook! I tried sw noseslide kickflip out and kf crooks but was not close to either. Dave came super close to a treflip out of the bank! Down to the spine area, Dave had some cool transfers in between flyout kids pushing through. I took a while to do an easy feeble stall then noseslide half of the hubba. Took a while to do fakie flip on the mellow bank then noseslide the hubba. Hucked a couple fakie tres. Back to the rock area Dave was lining out bigspins and front tails again. I managed a bad bigflip on the bank. Not too shabby of a session all things considered.

(setup 7/10 null 20 years 8.5/14.25, jessup ultragrip, thunder hollow 149, spitfire f4 99a 52mm pink/green classic, new balance numeric 430 b/w size 12 half 574 insole and currex runpro insole)
(pain level 4/10)

After work went to the safeway curb spot Dave had recently fixed up. I proceeded to completely suck and feel so off on my skateboard. Rob stopped by on his bike and said hi which was cool. Dave had some good grinds. Back 180 fakie 50, slappy crooks, 50s, 50 to noseslide. I had a couple mid flippers, slammed on a noseslide, couldn’t commit to 50s. All that said, I’d like to go back and skate it again.

(setup 2/10 null 8.25 time warp, jessup ultragrip, ace af1 hollow 44, spitfire f4 101a 51mm classic, new balance numeric 430 b/w size 12 half 574 insole and currex runpro insole)
(pain level 6/10)

Feeling soooo sore I went to Frederick to meet up with Noè, Hayden and Bo. I had the park to myself for about an hour. Well, a kid on a scooter with her parents following her everywhere. I actually got the body working a little. Did some front and back 50s on the curb. Some bad crook on the ledge. Had some okay back 50s on the bank to curb, kickflip on the hump. After the dudes got there I mostly just filmed which was good because I was so sore.

(setup 7/10 null 8.25 time warp, jessup ultragrip, ace af1 hollow 44, spitfire f4 101a 51mm classic, new balance numeric 430 b/w size 12 half 574 insole and currex runpro insole)
(pain level 6/10)

After a crappy night of sleep Dave, Cass and I rolled east to Bennett to check out their new skatepark. Upon arrival I proceeded to immediately step in horse shit which covered almost the entire sole of my shoe. I was so bummed and it smelled bad. Luckily there was some wet grass and I was able to ignore the grossness and get to skating.

Gordon first since he was the first to leave. Some good front and back 50s, 5-0s, nosebonk over ledge to manual, tailslides I think, manuals, boardslide into bank, pop shoves up the manny pad.

Cass next since he hurt his back on a crook attempt and had to sit out the last couple hours of the session. Although he probably would have just been chilling anyway since he did so many tricks early. Boardslide into the bank, manual pier 7, really good front noseslides down the hubbas, back 50s, 5-0s, almost back 180 nosegrind the hubba, some really long crooks on the bump to ledge.

I really did not skate well. I was so tired, had a setup change, was in a foul mood after stepping in crap. I did a few things I liked though. Noseslide across the old pyramid to ledge was fun, kickflip to fakie and regular kickflip on the long bank, kickflip flyouts, noseslide to fakie the hubba, some front 50s, but no back 50s, no crooks really, lots of switch front noses, came kind of close to a rick flip, ghost front rocks were fun.

Dave did a lot. Hard to remember all the lines, but they had nose manuals, noseslides the hubba, ollied into the bank, tailslides on the bank of all variations, boardslides to fakie on the qp, ollie up to front boardslide into the bank, switch slappy crooks, slappy crooks, grind over the crazy drainage cover, kickflip on the bank, shove fakie on the bank, the list goes on. He even did ride on tailslides at the nearby stage that were amazing.

(setup 7/10 null 8.25 time warp, jessup ultragrip, ace af1 hollow 44, spitfire f4 101a 51mm classic, new balance numeric 430 b/w size 12 half 574 insole and currex runpro insole)
(pain level 5/10)

Met up with Cass at the 112th Thornton park. It was cloudy and raining in Boulder when I left, but sunny and nice in Thornton. I arrived as Cass was trying to front noseslide over the manual pad. After that we did some crooks on the ledge. Well, I did. Ha. Mine were looks jibs compared to Cass’ attempts though. I would do a line of crooks then kickflip to fakie on a bank there. Also a front axle on the bank to curb. Am I really to a point where I list that as a trick? Geez.

Then we went to this nearby ditch/ledge spot which was way different than I imagined. I didn’t skate very well. Couldn’t halfcab flip on flat or commit to front 50 on the downhill ledge, or crooks the main ledge. Cass on the other hand, did crooks shove before we had even thought of filming. He got close, but couldn’t do it again once we tried to film though. He also got front nose shove. I would do the sw front nose then sw 180, switch nose 270 shove. Tried a million noseslides to manual and actually got one somehow. I was pretty hyped even if it wasn’t done very well.

(setup 3/10 null 8.3 time warp, jessup pj ultragrip, thunder hollow 148, 52mm spitfire f4 99a classic pink/green, new balance numeric 430 b/w size 12 little half insole and currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 5/10)

After work on a Friday I drove through gridlock CU football traffic to dog park just as it started raining. I managed a couple tricks as it started. Mainly some curb 50s, noseslides and crooks on the bench. Tried to front 50 the bench a few times, but the rain became too much.

Went to the garage again. This time did the 180 sw crooks shove first try. I had a setup change that seemed okay. 8.3 with 8.25 thunders. It flipped slightly better. I would get a few flip tricks before Dave showed and some switch front axle stalls. I would get a switch front pivot on a curb too. Dave warmed up a bit then quickly did some nollie over to crooks on the “bump to curb”. But he did it for a long time to avoid the hand touch. I fell into a rut of trying kickflip axle stall then treflip for a long time. The great news being that I finally landed a treflip. It’s been a long time since I’ve done one on flatground. Also got a front smith stall kickflip out. No heelflip garnish though. Dave also did nollie shove transfer to pivot and back 180 sw crooks. Also a bangin’ fakie varial flip.

(setup 5/10 null 8.3 time warp, jessup pj ultragrip, thunder hollow 148, 52mm spitfire f4 99a classic pink/green, new balance numeric 430 b/w size 12 little half insole and currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 5/10)

On the way into work I stopped at Boulder park on a nice day with a questionable setup change. 8.3 with T2s again. It was okay. Felt really good grinding on the qp, but not so much for ollies or ledge tricks since T2s are so tall. I cruised a bit, got kind of dialed in, did some little basics. Then kind of went in on front 50s over and over on the various ledges and they kind of worked. Even did one on the bump to ledge which I haven’t done in a long time. Kind of forget what else I did, but it was a fun quick session with the park all to myself.

After work the rain made for a change of plans after work and I ended up at the ol’ Valmont parking garage. I was sore, but I did try to get things going. My board felt better than the smaller one yesterday, but all things considered I landed less flip tricks. Almost none. I did have some fun with the weird curb area and relived the 180 pivot shove trick from a couple years ago.

(setup 3/10 null 8.3 time warp, jessup ultragrip pj, thunder 149 t2, 52mm spitfire f4 99a pink/green classic, new balance numeric 430 b/w size 12, half insole and currex runpro insole)
(pain level 5/10)

Went to go skate, but it was raining. Drove to a nearby garage and proceeded to completely suck. Like almost can’t even comprehend how I am so bad at flatground now. I had been warming up and this bird kept flying at me. But we worked it out and I kept to an area that he didn’t mind me skating. The lighting wasn’t great, but the concrete is pretty smooth. I would struggle to get kickflip, fakie flip, halfcab flip, varial flip, f/s halfab flip, backside flip, switch back shove, fakie bigspin, some 180s, felt like a complete idiot on my skateboard.

(setup 0/10 null 8.25 time warp, jessup ultra, slappy low profile 8.25, 52mm spitfire f4 99a classic pink/green, new balance numeric 430 b/w size 12 half insole and currex runpro insole)
(pain level 4/10)