Another hot and sunny day.  I took Ollie and his buddy Sam to the new Arvada park.  When we got there the park was almost empty.  Just one other skater.  I had a goal of trying the euro to manual and tried it kinda out of the blue and got it first try.  Whoa, that’s rare.  I also had a goal of doing a rock ‘n roll on the shallow end, but never got it.  I was trying a few lines.  Flip trick then rock ‘n roll in the shallow.  Never got the rock.  Later on I did manager a layback f/s rock and dropped in too.  I got a line with back 50 the ledge, front feeble little qp, front 50 front shove out the ledge that hyped me up.  I tried a run with front 50 or front d on the top qp, ollie on the twinkie, then kickflip the euro but managed to never ride out of that somehow.  Ugh.  Ollie was cruising around with his mongo steez.  He did a cool line of kickturn on the twinkie bank then ollie out of the curb cut.  He also rolled in the tiny qpipe easily and even ollied into it (but cleared the tranny).  Sam learned rock ‘n rolls on the little qp.  Some BMXers came that were some of the best I’ve seen.  It’s still annoying sharing a little park with dudes going that fast and worrying about collisions with your kid, but they did a bunch of cool slide on their tires tricks I’ve never seen before.

It was another mid 90 degree day and I wasn’t ready for it.  I met Jason at the manny pad where I struggled badly.  10 tries to even land a manual.  I was skating so horribly.  Jason seemed to be doing better and trying some new tricks.  Neither of us landed much.  I managed to get my first nose manny nollie back shove out in a long time.  Came close to heelflip manny.We left for the ledge area and my legs had nothing.  I could boardslide and crooks it, but ollies up into 50 was so hard.  Jason was ripping through.  Back 50s, front board pop out.  Brian and Lazer met up for some skating and complaining.  We went over to the bank to curb area nearby.  Jason and Lazer threw down a bunch of tricks.  Tail blocks, crails, stuff like that.  Brian sat and debated quitting skateboarding.  I tried back pivot shove outs until I got one that met my requirement for a clean landing ( < 3 tic tacs).  I had to leave to get to a BBQ at Zachs.  Fun.  Not the best day of skating.