Had the day off work. \u00a0The plan was to skate the new Arvada skate spot with Brian, John and Ollie. \u00a0We made it there, but a few minutes after arriving we were told by a contractor that the park isn’t open yet and to leave. \u00a0Ugh. \u00a0This scared Ollie so he didn’t really do anything other than follow me around saying “Dad, let’s go”. \u00a0John ripped everything before we left. \u00a0Blunt pivot fakie on the 1 foot tall qpipe. \u00a0Brian wasn’t into how small everything was, but still managed to not land a frontside grind over the stairs. \u00a0Only thing I was hyped on was a front to back 50 transfer over the spine.After stopping at Community to say whaddup we went to the old Arvada park for a few minutes before the lightning scared us out. \u00a0Brian and John were ripping right away. \u00a0Brian did fsg bf ft on the cement walls (fs grind followed by blunt fakie first try). \u00a0John got in on the cement bank action too and did fsg and back disaster as well as blunt to pivot. \u00a0Ripping. \u00a0Ollie cruised around. \u00a0I felt like the lame dude that can’t do fsgs.After some pizza and rain we attempted to do Broomfield, but there was too much traffic and we needed to get back. \u00a0A short stop at Louisville was in order. \u00a0I got pissed quick bailing back 50s around the corner. \u00a0I ended up having an ok time though. \u00a0I also got a front smith on the bank to ledge and ended it with a crooks on the flyout ledge that I’ve never skated before. \u00a0Ollie got some front boards on the little ledge and cruised around a lot. \u00a0Brian was manning the clock and the no comply front blunts. \u00a0John did a pivot to fakie on the edge of the bank and some other tailslides and whatnot.After a small dinner the plan was to go skate Broomfield. \u00a0This was John’s idea, but he didn’t answer his phone. \u00a0Skelly was coming all the way from Fort Collins and I was gonna meet Brian and maybe Fuzz there too. \u00a0I ended up skating flatground for awhile because I knew it would be awhile before everyone showed up. \u00a0I ended up skating flat pretty hard again. \u00a0I guess I must be into it again. \u00a0Anyways after some initial messing around I started trying a couple runs. \u00a0 One way was fakie bigflip, front shove, 360 flip. \u00a0I got that run once with a sketchy 3 flip. \u00a0The other was was f\/s halfcab flip, heelflip nollie treflip. \u00a0I came super close to that one. \u00a0Landed on, but never rode away from the nollie tre. \u00a0When I would bail runs I hucked some random tricks and came super close to nollie flip at one point as well as landing maybe my 3rd or 4th 3 shove. \u00a0I guess I skated flat for awhile because I got a call from Sean asking if we were still coming. \u00a0Oops.The drive went by quick as I was bumping some Priority Records sampler I found. \u00a0Snoop, NWA, EPMD, etc. \u00a0Awesome. \u00a0I got to the park which was crowded, but not as insane as it can be. \u00a0Lots of Boulder heads were there. \u00a0Fuzz wanted to play SKATE kind of with a trick on the qpipe then ledge. \u00a0I opted out of that quick since I suck and Fuzz is good. \u00a0Especially after he did a first try front d on the qpipe then back 5-0 on the black ledge. \u00a0I hid out in the flow bowl for awhile posing out and not landing anything. \u00a0Then the bowl got crowded so I went to the ledge area. \u00a0I can’t remember doing anything worthwhile except an accidental front 50 on the little qpipe. \u00a0I think I went back to the bowl around the time Brian showed up. \u00a0His first run was so sick. \u00a0Seriously, I hang out with that dude sometimes. \u00a0I finally got a couple little stalls\/grinds. \u00a0Doing stuff on the 3 foot tall part on top of the bowl is really fun. \u00a0Max was there and he killed huge flyout to front ds. \u00a0Toward the end I started skating the ledge area again. \u00a0I almost rolled or broke my ankle bailing a front 5-0 on the convex ledge at one point. \u00a0That was scary. \u00a0I got boardslides almost every try on the tiny downhill rail. \u00a0Brian almost did feeble and eventually went on to do a perfect front board as the lights shut off. \u00a0He followed it up with a really good run too. \u00a0Fuzz struggled a bit at boardsliding the rail but backed it up with first t halfcab board and a feeble grind. \u00a0At the end of the session I was doing front 50s down the euroish ledge and trying side rock’s on the manny bank with a kickflip out. \u00a0I eventually got one. \u00a0Hyped. \u00a0I forgot to mention Sean. \u00a0He skated the bowl really well and managed to boardslide the little rail with a broken toe. \u00a0Wow! \u00a0That park is awesome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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