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Meta posted this.  Pretty radical.  Max got some quick feet!

Was planning on going into work early then leaving for Colorado Springs with John and Bernie around 11, but I felt all sick the night before and hardly slept at all.  So instead I just got up late, ate breakfast and rolled out when John and Bernie showed up.  First stop was the CO Springs park which was mostly clear of snow.  Bernie had never been there before.  Bernie and I started out in the backyard pool and did a few carves before we all skated the flat bank for awhile.  John was killing it quickly.  Back smith, back smith fakie, blunt pivot, back blunt, blunt back tail, etc.  It was ridiculous.  We moved over to the somewhat crowded street area for awhile.  John was ripping there too.  He got me to roll in on the steep area up top which was fun.  I was skating so bad that after awhile I just went up to the little one foot tall spine by myself and ended up having some fun there.  I got a line with like front D on the little q-pipe then front feeble to backsmith revert transfer over the spine.  John and Bernie ended up joining me and once again John killed it.  Fun powerslides over the pump bumbs, blunt back ts on the flat bank, rock ‘n roll on the little extension, etc.   Next we all tried some lines on some hips.  I was trying manual down the downhill manny pad then kickflip back tail over the hip.  Bernie was doing kickflip manual then double backside flip.  John was doing 180 into the downhill pad then switch b/s flip over the hip.  I don’t think anyone got their line perfect, but Bernie got close and I got a really bad kick back tail over the hip.  I was still kinda hyped though because I’ve never done it over a hip like that.  Before leaving we all ollied the longer 3 stair and it took John 1 try, Bernie 3 tries and me 4 tries.  Imagine that, me sucking.After hitting a few shops, selling some things, eating some food and more driving we ended up at Parker shortly after 7 pm.  It was supposed to be a quick session.  This dude Mike was there that John knew filming some really crazy stuff.  Nollie back big front board fakie.  None of us had even seen that trick attempted before.  He also switch front big heeled the big gap.  So sick.  Bernie and I skated the tall Pier 7 replica.  I wanted to manny it, but never got it.  That didn’t stop me from dropping off it a bunch and making me really sore.  Bernie did a switch nose manny first try and followed it with a halfcab nose manual next try.  Wow.  John got one of his patented moves, front shove front nose on the bank to ledge.  We cruised around a bit too and played a game of SKATE that was to end the session.  I was the first one out.  Landing a 3 flip in the cold somewhat negated getting a letter on a front shove, but I was still bummed.I went over the ledge and skated it while Bernie and John finished the game.  I ended up having a blast on the ledge.  I got tricks like front 5-0, front 50 back 180 out, back 50, back crooks and more first try.  I went on to get quite a few of my ledge tricks.  Front smith, front 50 to front board (aka the Joe Hamilton), back 50 back shove out, back crooks to fakie, halfcab boardslide.  I also got a back 50 to front 180 out.  But I use so much angle to get into back 50s that Bernie coined it the “90 in 90 out”.  Pretty funny.  Bernie and John ended up joining in on the ledge session that went on for at least an hour.  John relearned front 5-0s and did all kinds of cool slappy noseslide variations.  Bernie tried front 5-0 kickflip out and fakie 5-0 kickflip out, but never landed them.  He also tried front smith kickflip out for awhile.  I struggled with an old staple of mine – the front 5-0 shove it for quite a while before landing a really bad one.  It was getting really cold though.  We left around 9:30.  Wow.  Lots of skating.  The ledge session at the end was my favorite.  Does it really take me all day to warm up now?