Met Will at dog park after work. It was breezy, but nice out. I was very sore and seemed like the knee pain got worse as I went on. I’m reminded of how much the 600s hurt my knees. Nick was there, but couldn’t get it going because of the wind so he left. Kind of a weird session. Will did switch manual and was trying to go right into switch front 50 on the bench. I don’t think he got both together. He had some nice nosegrinds and all that. I was okay on the lower stuff. Had a couple flippers. Tried the line above for a while starting with fakie flip, but as soon as Will started filming I couldn’t land one. Argh. So I just did the halfcab noseslide then kickflip and when I landed the kickflip over the curb I decided why not try no comply flip. And it worked out! Left on a good note after that.

(setup 7/10 8.25 null kaleidoscape, pepper grip, venture 5.6 v8 bones medium bushings hollow hanger, 52mm bones stf v1 103a, new balance numeric 600 black/gum size 12 currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 6/10)

Went to Square State in the evening hyped to see Brian and skate some. I had a new board which felt good with the mostly new kicks. Brian and I played on the china bank for a bit. I had some axle stalls and maybe a front slash onto the other bank, a kickflip on the bank. Brian did rock to feeble to fakie, front slash, blunt fakie which kind of ruined his back. After that Alex and Nick were playing SKATE in the middle and I tried a bunch of treflips near the china bank. Landed on a couple bad ones, but never got a clean one. At the end I posed some halfcab flip noseslides on the little ledge, but was not close.

(setup 4/10 null kaleidoscape 8.25, pepper grip, slace 8.25, 52mm bones stf v1 103a, converse fastbreaks white size 12 half 574v insole and currex runpro insole)
(pain level 5/10)

Nice afternoon. Got to dog park an hour before sunset. A couple normal heads were there. I joined Ted and Jason for some attempts at pressure flip. Jason has them good. Ted and I had some that seemed close, but a lot that weren’t. Robbie was there shredding, so fun to watch. His back smiths are insane, so dipped. I don’t remember much after that, but then I started trying a line for a while. Nosegrind 180 the curb, sw noseslide, then kickflip 50 the lurb. Never got it, but was incredibly close. Dave joined us. We were doing whatever when a scooter kid came over and asked to jump over me. It was actually pretty funny as I had asked if he wanted me standing or bent over. After he jumped me Dave and I set up the kicker so we had a 1″ ollie to grind the wood box. And it’s funny because it took both of us several tries. Me more than Dave of course. My trucks were driving me nuts with the kingpin nut coming loose every few seconds. Dave did the cool long line then I bounced for dinner.

(setup 1/10 null hayden 8.3, jessup ultra, thunder team hollows 149 bones medium bushings, 51mm spitfire f4 99a radials green, converse fastbreaks white size 12 with half 574v insoles and currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 5/10)

After a brutal week of work I got out on a really nice, but breezy at times Friday afternoon. Will was at Valmont kickflipping the euro. I putzed around. Not remembering much just tried to do lots of ollies on banks and stuff.

Then we went over to dog park, Ted had showed up. As well as about 50 college students for a CU skate gathering. Their youthful energy was contagious. I know Will as busting his normal ledge/manual moves. I was somehow 2-2 on manuals on the little pad which is ultra rare for me these days. Somehow the lane with the benches and flat bar remained chill so we seemed to stick around there for a while. I was happy to get the wallie/crooks/bs flip a couple of times. Will had never skated the tall bench before and did like 5 tricks quickly. The nosegrinds were nuts. Ted popped up into 50s easily too. Somehow I’m not remembering much else, but we did skate and have fun.

(setup 5/10 null 8.25 sean, jessup pj grip, slace 8.25 trucks, 52mm bones v1 stf 103a, splay rev lts green size 12 with remind impact cush insoles)
(pain level 4/10)

After dinner went to 30th and Pearl area. Skated my 8.25 with ventures. Other than a easy first try kickflip and one good front 50 I very much disliked it. Ugh. Warm up run that took too long was noseslide to fakie one of the taller ledge, sw 180 on flat, slappy crook. Then I mostly flailed around for a while before getting a line of front tail a banked curb, nollie back 180 flail, sw 180, noseslide the first ledge, sketchy crooks the next one. Then I went over to the brick area with the low escalating ledge. Had a fun and bad line of switch noseslide to forward then nollie tail. Messed around with front 50s, got one good one early on. Then went to suck mode and barely got another one and a few accidental garbage slow front 5-0s. My knee pain was pretty bad, I think that really played into it unfortunately. Left bummed.

(setup 3/10 8.25 null flaherty, jessup pj, venture 5.6 v-cast bones med bushings, 52mm bones stf v1 103a, splay green rev lts size 11.5 remind impact cush insoles)
(pain level 5/10)

The relief of finishing the work week was great. Was heading to dog park after work, but then randomly remembered this spot and went there instead. I had brought my 8.3 with thunders instead and like anytime skating thunders the first time, I liked them. It was pretty cool out. Didn’t try many flippers, but I did pop more than expected. After some jibbing I did ollie more than expected. Didn’t really land much. Did get one line of ollie up, briefest noseslide a bench up top, ollie down the 2. It was not easy or graceful. Did the fun front nose stall to pivot. Tried to front tail tall to something on the lower curb, but couldn’t get the tail stall. Had some little grinds on the step. I wish I had brought wax because I still want to grind it to something on the ledge. Did some stalls on the ledge. All in all, pretty fun for a quick session after a long exhausting work week.

(setup 6/10 null hayden 8.3, jessup ultra, thunder team hollows 149 bones medium bushings, 51mm spitfire f4 99a radials green, splay rev lts green size 12 with remind impact cush insoles)
(pain level 5/10)

I hadn’t put a new board together after the bad treflip night before so I grabbed an 8.5 with slappy lights. Ugh. Showed up at Square State after a long day of work not feeling very motivated. There were a few dudes there, not a lot. It was cool. I started in the corner just kind of feeling things out. Then to the main area did some normal axle stalls, wallies and noseslides. Then managed to do the “gap” to noseslide. It was actually pretty fun. Ted had done it frontside with a 270 out. Skated the ramp for a while. Will had some great frontside ollies. This dude Brian was in there with a really cool surfy style and was fun to skate with. I did a few basics, had fun. Then Ted, Will and I went in on pivots to fakie on the little qp. Will did pivot to rock fakie. I did my cheater pivot fakie. But I did also get a great feeling fakie pivot fakie. That was about it. Oh, Jason was there killing it. Nollie tres down the 3 stair, kickflip the hubba, etc. Nick killed the stairs too. Damien tore up everything.

(setup 2/10 8.5/14.25 20 year deck, jessup ultra, slappy lights 8.5, spitfire f4 99a classic 52mm pink/purple, splay rev lts green size 12 remind impact cush insoles)
(pain level 4/10)

On a cool and windy night I went out to the garage to skate flat for an hour. It ended up being pretty fun. I did some warm ups then started the flippers. Kickflips went alright, fakie flip. B/s flip took surprisingly long which was a bit frustrating and I don’t think I even got a clean one. Halfcab flip first try. Got a sloppy fakie bigflip which is pretty hard in that little space. Then went in on heelflips which took quite a while, but felt good to get one. Hucked nollie tres for a while after. Some were close, most were not.

(setup 4/10 8.25 null time warp, jessup ultra, venture 5.6 v-cast bones medium bushings, 52mm bones stf v1 103a, splay rev lts green size 12 remind impact cush insoles)
(pain level 3/10)

On yet another incredibly warm Feb day I met up with quite a few peeps at dog park. I wasn’t overly motivated to skate there. After how sore I got yesterday I tried the strike mvmnts and that contributed to frustrations as they had no board feel at all. Changing to some Last Resorts didn’t help. But I skated, and so did everyone, and we had fun. Dog park I don’t remember much. There were a lot of dudes there. Gordon, Will, Jesse, Radley, Bratcher, Steezy, Eric, a bunch more. I went like 1-10 on kickflips. Yikes. Gordon and Jesse didn’t make it to the streets.

Eric, Jack, Steezy, Will and I went to the Pearl and 30th area. We started near the Spot kind of just dorking around, nothing special. Then went into the main attraction and it was really fun. Everyone was kind of skating differently, checking things out. Me and Eric hit the main two ledges for a bit. He got boardslide. I had some noseslides. Then I went over and tried a noseslide with no setup over a tiny gap. Went back to the main area and Will did a sick nose manual. I managed crook and noseslide and was hyped. Should have tried the fakie flip again though. I was hating those shoes so much. Will filmed Steezy to a line to fakie back tail. Jack did a sick front 50 180. Jack and I did some wallrides.

Then we went to Steelyards. Haven’t been there in years. There were quite a few cars coming in and out. I haven’t really enjoyed that spot as much since they put in the bike racks. Oh well. Eric ripped some fast long manuals. Will some good manuals. Steezy manual shove then nose manual shove was a banger. Jack found a fun line with a couple little gaps. He did ollie then back 180. And I think back 180 then switch front 180. I was trying shove then front shove, but I couldn’t shove to save my life. I would eventually get two of them, but not the front shove after. Doh. Settled for switch front 180 the little gap then front shove. Couldn’t get it again when Steez tried to film it though. Oh well. Fun long day in the warm weather.

I truly hate shoes and wish so much someone would make a thin wide toe cupsole. Argh.

(setup 8.25 with ventures then 8.3 with thunders and last resort cm002s with currex runpro insoles)
(pain level 7/10)

Nice morning after a night of rain (in February?!?!?) I met up with Cass, Gordon and Jake at Cushing skatepark. We had a decent session, but it was kind of crowded and hard to get into the flow of things. Jake brought back blunt to fakie on the little qp, almost back blunt on it. Had some good crooks, halfcab noseslide, front tail, nollie back tail. Cass started out by slamming a few times. Still had some nice moves though, ollies the hip, 50s the ledge both ways, crooks. Gordon nollie pop over the a-frame and fakie ollie too. Nollie up the euro. Fast front 50s, ollie the longer part of the stairs. My fav thing was a crooks and then kickflip onto the ramp. I really struggled with front 50s on the ledge. It felt so tall. It’s crazy, I really have lost pop.

Then we went to the alley ledge with the kink in it. It seemed fun, it was fun, but it was harder than we thought it would be. Gordon had some nice fast front 50s through the kink, front 180 out too. Jake noseslides, nollie back tail. Cass really long noseslides and front noseslides. Oh and he showed up Jake with a first try noseslide though the kink to shove. I had some mid noseslides, crooks, sw noseslide 270 shove, was happy to get slappy crooks. Hucked a lot of flatground, landed almost nothing.

After picking up boards from 303 and driving to Bluecar I went to the long ledge. Almost got hurt climbing a fence to get there. When I did my body was completely shot. I could barely ollie. I would get a couple lines I liked as far as landed some tricks, but they were very slow and was too tired to really skate that spot. Switch front nose then halfcab noseslide. Front noseslide then front 50. Still struggled to crooks it, almost had nollie back tail. What an amazing spot. One of these times I want to skate it with energy.

(setup 4/10 8.25 null time warp, jessup ultra, venture 5.6 v-cast bones medium bushings, 52mm bones stf v1 103a, splay rev lts green size 12 nike sb insole and currex runpro insole)
(pain level 5/10 early then 8/10 later)