Jumping the gun on the ankle for sure, but I wont be able to skate til sunday at the earliest so I went to Lafayette to meet up with Dean and Derek with the intention of only skating trannie. Only because I didn’t want to hurt my ankle more (didn’t work). When I got there at 8:30 the lights were just turning on (seriously Lafayette how can the lights still be a problem at the skatepark?). Dean and Derek walked up to show me the new Skate Mag with Derek in it. So rad. Dean also had a very special gift for me as a thank you for getting him involved in shooting photos with Null. What the heck? I should be thanking you dude! Anyways, wow, thanks Dean! And you know what they say ladies, a way to a man’s heart is through Dinosaur Jr. Ha.

Although it looked like rain, it only sprinkled a tiny bit. I started in the medium bowl and took too long to get a solid back 50 and once I did I basically ran into a corner and lost my speed everytime. Dean and I hit the little bowl for awhile avoiding scooter kids. Ugh. Dean got some long back 50s around the corner. I bailed a lot of them, managed one long front 50, one front d and that’s about it. Derek was tearing up everything as usual. Kickflip fakie on the extension ok. We hit the snake run for a bit where I tried ollies on the hip and would miss the tail and just hurt my ankle for no reason. At one point Derek and I skated the big bowl with this dude Brandon that was murdering it. I felt like a total idiot and didn’t do much more then drop in and bail a kickturn well below vert. We did some other cruising around. It was fun. The only new thing I did was roll in next to the bowl by the bank which is easy, but just weird. Oh, I also dropped in on the big qp at the end of the snake run. I wasn’t planning on it, but Derek yelled across the park for me to do it so I tried. It was way taller then I thought, I rolled away, but it was sketchy and scary. Derek was hyped. Ha. Fun night once the kids left. I shouldn’t have skated though, my ankle is hurting.

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