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)

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)

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 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 went to campus. Had assembled a larger setup. Hated it. And it didn’t help on the ledges whatsoever. I guess I started at the tiny flat gap spot. Did a warm up line of something like kickflip, ollie the gap into the slight hill and then 180 the gap. Also a stall on the step, front 180 into the bank and sw 180 the flat gap. Then to the flagstone area. Crooks didn’t feel amazing even with the 151s. Noseslides were whatevs. Flip tricks felt impossible. Rain was imminent so I went in on ollies onto the flagstone then front 50. Failed at both. Miserably. Did get onto both, but not close to landing either.

(setup 0/10 null 20 year 8.5/14.25, null grip, thunder team hollow 151, spitfire f4 99a 52mm classic orange/black, splay rev lt b/w size 12 with fp 5mm flat kingfoam insole)
(pain level 3/10)

Went to campus after work to meet Will. He was running late so I flailed around at the elementary school waiting. I had put Thunders on and they felt terrible for a while. But Will arrived and we went to campus and things got better. We started at Baker ledge. Will super casually manualed the pad a few times out of the gate showing me and a college skater how to do it. Ha. I would eventually get a couple manuals, almost one into the ride on grind. I had some good feeling crooks and switch front noses. One very slow front 50. Kind of close to switch 180 manual. Will with a great line of front tail to fakie then switch manual. We were at Baker quite a while. Then we went to the mini bump to hill. Will first try kickflip and switch pop shove into it before getting called for work. I had pop shove, sloppy fakie bigflip and b/s flip. Then we bounced. Fun session, but man I was soooo sore after.

(setup 6/10 8.3 pmg, jessup ultragrip, thunder 149 hollow lite no bottom washer, spitfire f4 99a radial slim 51mm green, splay rev b/w size 12 with 574 insoles and currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 6/10 pretty sore)

Was feeling pretty lazy, but it was oh so nice outside. Ended up going to campus in the evening. For the most part I am truly enjoying the Splay shoes. But it has been a struggle figuring out what size board/trucks to go with it as the wide shoe feels different. I had 8.3 with aces and can’t say there was a single redeeming quality of that setup. But I skated. I randomly first started at kind of bank to ledge. The big crack before it makes it hard to skate. I don’t think I’ve skated it since 2017. Which is before my kids went to school there. Crazy. I struggled initially with some nose stall variations, then front axle, then did the weird front axle shove to fakie. Next I ended up behind the fitness center looking at stuff before heading down the hill and remembering this 4 stair I tried to ollie once before. Took a few tries, but I got it and as bad as the ollie is it felt pretty cool. Then I ended up at the smaller bank to curb that you have to ollie onto. Was struggling with aces to ollie up the curb. A cop came by and posted up in their truck watching me so I skated off. Ended up at this fun little bump, but struggled mightily to b/s flip it. Ugh. Goodbye aces. Hopefully I wont be dumb enough to try them again.

(setup 2/10 8.3 pmg, jessup ultragrip, ace af1 hollow 55, spitfire f4 99a radial slim 51mm green, splay rev b/w size 12 with 574 insoles and currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 5/10 pretty sore)

Had some time before a very long day in the office so I hit dog park on a sunny windy morning. I had put together an 8.25 with venture 5.6s and hated it. Other than it seemed to pop onto front 50s alright there was nothing I liked about it. I tried to do some stuff though, nothing really worked. Probably did more than I’m saying, but definitely not anything I noted as above average.