Got home after work and felt really good.  I could not suppress the urge to skate.  I went out to the street and tried one kickflip. BOLTS.  I went to go back inside, but some kids skating at the school came over so Ollie and I went over with them and skated.  This little 5th grade kid was ripping.  180s the four stair both ways and kickflips and other tricks on flat.  Cool.  Ollie was a bit shy at first but busted out the video trick part a few times.  He even did a front board pop out on accident this time.  I was skating pretty cautious again, but not as cautious as the day before.  I played on the curb at the top of the stairs for awhile just kinda testing different moves like 180s in and out of stuff.  Nothing hurt.  I started hucking kick back tails and got 3 of them.  Rad!  I did a couple flippers on flat, but nothing serious.   I guess I’m skating again, but still gonna be cautious for a bit.

Was in Denver all day with John spreading the Null and John wanted to skate.  I was hesitant but willing to skate a small qpipe so we hit the Zuni park and it ended up being a blast.  I skated ridiculously cautious and managed not to hurt myself.  I tried a couple ollies on flat and that wasn’t a good idea.  The tricks I had fun were a long for me back feeble grind, back tail on the no coping section and some front tails.  John was killing it.  Proper back smiths. back lip revert, tall backside ollies, front shove into the bank, alley oop fakie grinds, a lot more.  Fun time.  My groin definitely started to feel weird by the end of the session.  Not really hurt, but didn’t feel good.  I think I’ll be able to skate for real in a few days.  Prolly wont skate again before then, but who knows.OH AND THIS SESSION WAS MY 100TH DAY OF SKATING SO FAR THIS YEAR!!!

Show of the year so far.   Pictures to come soon.

Basically didn’t do anything the first few days after the Dr said no skating or other activity.  It’s getting better and harder to not skate ..

If your a diligent reader of my skate journal you will know that I fell down in pain my last session due to weird groin pain.  Well walking up the stairs into work the next day resulted in a similar pain.  I went to the doctor.  He said it’s a pulled groin and to take two weeks off with no skating.  Not anything that may aggravate it.  No basketball with Ollie, no hiking on difficult trails with Liz, no sky diving with India.  Ugh.  He said if it still hurts in two weeks it’s MRI time and it may be 6 – 8 weeks.  Man I hope not.  I’m bummed, but kind of looking forward to a break from skating.  I’m gonna get some Null stuff done, hang with the family more and watch lots of NBA Playoffs.  Go Nuggets!

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Met John at the Boulder park and Rick was there too.  It was getting dark so we left soon.  We picked up Nate and headed to a random bikepath spot that John had scoped out.  It wasn’t that great, but we made the most of it.  I can’t really describe what this place was like too easily.  Basically it was a sidewalk that ran sideways along the road then went down to a nearby bikepath.  The top of the sidewalk banked up to the road making for a kicker.  The approach wasn’t easy.  Nate took the quick up over a grass gap route.  John and I took the swerve around the grass approach.  Not a whole lot went down.  We all ollied in from the road then over the grass gap.  Later on I ollied in a little later so the grass gap was slightly larger.  Fun.  John got a steezey back 180 out of the kicker.  Nate got some really good ollies out and looked like he could learn front 360s.  I got a kickflip and front pop shove out of the kicker and tried my best to improve upon my horrible ollies a little bit.  It was fun.Then we drove to find another spot, but stumbled upon an unwaxed ledge spot and just kinda dorked around.  There was this little electric box cover that Nate and John skated pretty well.  John got back lip and back tail.  Nate was ollieing a decent sized flat gap to setup for it and followed with some cool tricks.  At one point I was trying to do a switch manual on an inch high manny pad and something weird happened in my groin and I went down.  It hurt really bad.  At that point I stopped skating with any intensity and felt like I might have to take some time off.  Ugh.  That was basically the end of the session.

So sick.

Yeap, my 5th day off skating of the year.  I suck.  I kind of enjoyed it.  I sat around the house, hung with the family, worked on some Null stuff, got called into work and watched the Nuggets lose horribly.  I don’t know if their gonna get by the first round this year.  Ugh.