On the way to 303 Ollie and I hit Zuni park for awhile.  It was pretty crowded.  I kind of treated it as a day off of skating and didn’t ollie once, just skated the 3 foot qp the whole time.  I got quite a few tricks.  Front 50, front smith, back 50, back smith, back disaster (3rd one ever!), front lip (took way too long), front feeble (took too long as well), and the one that put the biggest smile on my face alley oop fakie back 5-0 to fakie.  Fun.  Ollie didn’t rip as hard as last time, but it was crowded and I think he was intimidated.  He got some back scratch grinds and almost ollied over the little kid table top.  But he smiled the whole time and wasn’t afraid to fly out into the grass, ride down the hill aways and jump and roll in the grass.  Being a kid must rule.

Headed up to Market with Bernie and Carleigh to sell some boards then skate campus since it was dark when we got there.  I had mentioned a manny pad I wanted to skate and everyone was down.  We acquired some crew at MRKT.  Chad Dad, Chris Jones, Andy Bonner.  Awesome.  We started off down the sidewalk to campus and it was already awesome.  Everyone popping little ollies, mannies, Chad hitting me in the face, it was awesome.  First spot was the ol’ two up two down that I used to skate with JP forever ago.  Seeing as how there were six of us I’m probably gonna blow it on remembering everyone’s tricks so I’m gonna go for a new format.  Two up two down:Bernie: The best kickflip manny I’ve ever seen.  Manual around the corner and down the block like it wasn’t even a trick.  Almost nose manny too.Carleigh:  Pop shove and kickflip down.  Almost a kickflip up.  Oh yeah she claims she’s never ollied up a “set” of stairs before.  I don’t buy it.  Ha.Bonner: Nose manny around the corner to the end of the block.  Ridiculous.Me: Manny.  One in a “line” where I mannied then at the end I rode down the stairs on my front wheels (I’ll never be able to do that again) then ollied a cone that was setup.Chris: Manny around the corner to the street like it was nothing.  Nose mannies.  Almost kickflip up, kickflip on flat, kickflip on flat, kickflip off.Chad: Still got it.  Almost kick nose manny.  Kickflip the cone.  Way more then I can remember right now.Next up was the most messed up spot.  Basically it was a 3 flat 2 flat 2 flat 2 flat 2 flat 2 flat 2 flat 2 then a 4.  We all looked so dumb riding down it, but it was totally awesome.   Here’s a blurry cell phone photo of a Bernie back 180 bail.I know, the worst photo ever, sorry.  But it literally went way up into the dark by that building.  It took everyone several tries to get to the end and multiple attempts to finally land the 4 stair at the end that has no setup time.  Bernie was the first to get the whole thing and it kinda went from there.  I was super hyped when I finally got it.  My ollie down the 4 stair was so bad, but I didn’t feel like trying it again so I quit.  Bonner ended up getting a kickflip down the 4.  Chris Jones had an insanely sick drop down the 3 followed by ollieing a 2 flat 2 as a double set then landing in a two stair basically.  Chad manualled into the 3 and almost got kickflip out.  Carleigh got about as close as you can get but ended up hanging up, diving and hitting her head pretty bad.  She was fine though.  Bernie held down the tech line with a manual drop to manual across the bike path in the middle then a back 180 down the 4.  Ridiculous.Next was the manny pad that Chad does his ender in Null And Void.  We acquired a college student at this session.  Plaid shorts and a Null board.  Awesome!  Bernie almost got halfcab nose manny drop to manny.  I basically did manny drop to manny first try, but touched a little then never got it.  Chad tried some cool stuff, but didn’t get it.  Carleigh came close to manny.  Bonner and Chad Dad took off at this point and we went to the new area with the curb kicker and rocks to skate.  We were pretty beat by then.  Bernie and Chris went for some tall ollies and grabs.  Chris even ollied a weird curb cut gap at full speed next to a wall.  Jude (? the college dude’s name I think) had a huge heelflip and some other moves.  Carleigh put down pop shove and kickflips pretty quick.  I was so beat, but put down a kickflip and a quick front shove before failing at some ollies that were one foot tall.  Ha.Super awesome session.  Totally what skateboarding is to me.  Push around and skate whatever, meet people, skate with homies, skate with people you don’t know so well, do it all, man it was fun.