Had like 15-20 minutes on the way into work. After a little roll around I went in on the ‘warm up’ line I had tried last week and lost my mind. This time I would get it, but it still took more tries than I would think. Felt cool though. Then I did a few front 50s on the hump to ledge before getting one on the regular bench then going into work.

(setup 6/10 null 20 years 8.5/14.25, jessup ultra, thunder hollow lite 149, bones stf 52mm v1 103a, new balance numeric 440 wide highs black size 12 half insole and currex runpro insole)
(pain level 4/10)

After work I stopped by dog park. It was a little cooler out, I guess seasonal instead of the heat wave we’ve had. The park was empty when I arrived, but would very quickly get heated with some rippers. I felt old af. Like I shouldn’t be there at all. I stuck with it though, really didn’t get beyond my basics. Front 50 the bench, halfcab noseslide, struggled with crooks, really struggled with flip tricks. Talked to Matt for a while. Skated more, the majority of the youth left. There was one dude left and he skated in such a cool way doing really good lines with planned flip tricks. Sw back heel was so cool, treflips. I tried a bunch of treflips and landed none of them. This entry is making me more bummed now that I’m writing it as I really didn’t do anything beyond ultra basic for me.

(setup 5/10 null 20 years 8.5/14.25, jessup ultra, thunder hollow lite 149, bones stf 52mm v1 103a, new balance numeric 440 wide highs black size 12 half insole and currex runpro insole)
(pain level 4/10)

Met up with Cass, then Gordon and Ladd at the RiNo art park. We started near the ride on grind area. Cass got close to f/s grinds. I mostly dorked out a line of nose stall the middle ledge, switch front nose the lower one, switch 180, noseslide a bench. Ladd had some flippers into the handicap bank and was close to landing the ride on grind. Gordon some poppy nollies into the handicap ramp, close to the ride on grind and some cool manuals on the top bench. Cass had some solid front shoves off the low ledge and we suggested he take it to the nearby bit 3. So he did! What the heck. It was a tough battle, but he did it. After that Gordon’s back was too messed up to skate much. Ladd rattled off some tricks up/down the little stage. I think the highlight was kickflip up then nollie heel down. I did some slow crooks, sw noeslides and kickflips on the bank. I skated for a while trying to piece together something decent, but I never really did. Ladd took a cool photo of a crooks though which I’m hyped on. Thanks Ladd! Fun day. A little frustrated that another day went by without a treflip of any sort. Gotta work on that.

(setup 7/10 null 20 years 8.5/14.25, jessup ultra, thunder hollow lite 149, bones stf 52mm v1 103a, new balance numeric 440 wide highs black size 12 half insole and currex runpro insole)
(pain level 4/10)

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Met up with Bratcher at dog park. Fergs was there too. Was a pretty quick and fun session. I hadn’t done a whole lot before Jack wanted to move on to the streets. A slow front 50 on the bench, halfcab noseslide, some crook attempts on the top shelf. Fergs and I hucked some flippers. I was on the 8.5/14.25 with thunders. It seemed alright.

Then we went to a 4 flat 3 flat 3 that Jack wanted to check out. It was pretty gnar with very little space in between sets. We didn’t even think of trying the 4 to start because the landing was so close to the next 3. I managed to ollie both the 3s at least.

Then a quick stop at the snowboard jump since we were so close. I took a few tries to get a kickflip.

Then to the 3 stair area. I was playing with lines, Jack was rattling off tricks down the 3. I had a line of halfcab flip, terrible ollie a manhole then front 180 the 3. Jack rattled off 180, switch 180, halfcab, pop shove, one foot, switch ollie. It was crazy how willing he was to commit. I was hyped on a front 180 up 2nd try then took forever to kickflip down it. I did commit several times before the roll away so had a few slams.

Jack left. I looked at the little ledge by the trash cans and did a couple of basics. Then noticed another area nearby I had never hit before. The ledge was really tall and a noseslide was hard. Someone good could line it out with a trick down a long 4 stair.

Fun day skating in the streets!

(setup 7/10 null 20 years 8.5/14.25, jessup ultra, thunder hollow lite 149, bones stf 52mm v1 103a, new balance numeric 440 wide highs black size 12 half insole and currex runpro insole)
(pain level 4/10)

Stopped at dog park after work. At no point did I have much energy or drive, but man it was nice out. Dave had said he was coming otherwise I would have bailed. Robbie was there ripping and fun to talk to. Only thing I did was 4 basic slide tricks on the blue ledge. Halfcab noseslide, nollie tail, nollie back tail, fakie front nose (which was terrible but I counted it). Dave switch manualled the grate, had some lines. Then we went over to Valmont and I watched Dave b/s flip the hip while a young BMXer busted tricks like back flips and 360 tail whips. It was really fun to watch.

(setup 2/10 8.3 indy and splays)
(pain level 7/10)

On the way into work I stopped at Boulder park for a short session. I started on an 8.25 with Royal and it was laughable how incredibly bad it felt. So I swapped for my 8.5 with T2s. Did some whatever then settled in on what I hoped would be a quick warm up line. Grind the qp, carve a weird hump, kickflkp to fakie on the bank next to the hip. But I couldn’t kickflip. At all. I lost my mind and it was so depressing.

After a long day at work I met Dave in the crack riddled parking lot behind Safeway in Longmont. He brought his curb. I was skating a very old 8.3 that had Indys on it and was so sore. But we skated and it was fun. I did a few of the sprack to manuals, took a long time to kickflip the parking block. Dave switch spracked it, sw tail the bank. Then did a crazy long line starting with no comply flip and getting to slappy crooks which involved some helipops, shoves and kickflips. Dave did the slappy crooks which is so crazy. Then we put the curb up and did a few tricks. Well, Dave did a few tricks anyway. He was 2-2 on front hurricane. Always fun skating with Dave.

(setup 8.5 with T2s early then 8.3 with Indys later and both I hated and some Splays which were starting to get painful)
(pain level 6/10)

Went across the street before dinner on what should have been a nice night, but the wind was kicking. Did some slappies while skating some slappies and at no point enjoyed it. Tried some switch front slappies and could not quite commit.

setup who cares it sucked

Back to Broomfield, but it was like 40 degrees cooler. Met up with the 98 dudes and more. At the park was Dan, Garrett, Scott, Gordon, Taylor, Kyle, Ladd, Jason, so many people I’m sure I’m missing like 10 people. Dan was a demo machine, seriously rips, such good style, such good trick selection. Garrett was ripping too, some banger lines. Jason vs Ladd frontside flips over the bump to bar were cool. Don’t think ladd ever landed it though. Jason did so many cool tricks including kickflip back nosegrind shove. I myself felt pretty bad on the board, well, actually boards because I changed half way through. I was unable to halfcab flip on the mellow bank until I switched to the 8.5 with T2s. And it felt good except grinds. Gordon was ripping flippers and said this is the year we learn tricks. I tried a few switch tres, was not close. Not so close to nollie tre either. It was a fun session. I didn’t land much. Everyone else did though.

(setups 8.3 thunder teams and 8.5 with thunder t2s both kinda meh but the 8.5 less meh)
(pain level 3/10)

I’m writing this entry on a Monday after skating Broomfield park both days over the weekend. So it all blurs as to who I skated with and what people did. Cass and Taylor were there when I arrived. Garrett would come after a while, Will showed about the time we were toast. I don’t remember anything even decent about my skating. Took too long do a sw noseslide 270 shove, nothing felt good. Didn’t even do 50s really. I played a game of SKATE with Cass near the start that he won and I didn’t land anything. I was wearing Splays again. Less pain, but also less confidence. I tried halfcab flip noseslides for a while and they weren’t the furthest from possible. Cass is still the bank flyout king with kickflip, treflip, hardflip and b/s flip I think. Taylor had some mean crooks combos. Will showed and was got to nollie noseslide right way. Pretty sick.

(setup 3/10 8.3 null keyhole 2, pepper grip, thunder team hollow 149, snot franky 53mm pink, splay rev lts green size 11.5 306c insole and currex runpro insole)
(pain level 4/10)

On a warm afternoon I met up with Will at his namesake spot. We hit the main manny pad area for a while. I had a christmas complete – 8.3 thunders 53s. Meh. We skated the low part of the ledge for a while. Will doing real tricks with pop like 50s and tailslides both ways. I did a lot of no pop tricks. And my setup felt like it had no pop so that wasn’t helping my lack of pop. Then we went up to start working on manuals. I got a first try manual then couldn’t do anything. Will had manualed down pretty far, but not til the end. I CU cop came and was super nice, but told us not to grind basically. So we played a game of SKATE that I lost really badly on. I think I did get a few flippers though. I started to get crazy knee pain. We went and looked at other spots, but didn’t skate anything. My knees hurt so bad walking home that I almost took off the Foy Cups and threw them in the creek.

(setup 3/10 8.3 null keyhole 2, pepper grip, thunder team hollow 149, snot franky 53mm pink, new balance numeric 306 cup grey size 12 half insole and currex runpro insole)
(pain level 7/10)