Met up with Dan, Matt and Joe at Dan’s place and had some yummy christmas cookies before heading out to the Omaha park on a pretty nice day. When we got there the park was pretty empty. It filled up quickly though. Joe and I warmed up on the little qp. We didn’t get too jiggy, but Joe had a nice f/s ollie and his patented fakie smith to rock fakie. Dan and Matt were already doing crazy lines on the ledges. Dan busted a front board 3 shove out that was ridiculous. Man can nollie into tricks way too easy. Joe did a bunch of combos. I had no pop in my legs, but they didn’t hurt. In fact my ankles were burning from some new arthritis cream I was trying out. I guess burning is better then normal arthritis pain because I lasted all day. I managed a few very basics going really slow. Then it got crowded and I lost motivation. Joe and I skated the bank to curb a bit. I got a back pivot, Joe got a front tail. A lot more tricks went down from the Fremont crew and they upheld their reputation of being super positive and it seemed to rub off a little on the typically quiet emo crowd.

After some burritos we headed to a park in Iowa (right outside of Omaha) that was make of a bunch of plastic pieces. Seems lame to go to a metal/plastic park after a concrete one, but it was actually really fun. My legs were lacking any pop so it was mostly tranny for me, but the others ripped it. I struggled at a basic front rock on a little qp for awhile, but was hyped to get it. Zack and Cory had joined us. Zack has some moves and Cory straight up rips. They all killed it. I don’t remember everything that went down. Cory back 5-0d the entire ledge on the top, did all the basics on the hubba, set the world record for the shortest run up for a front bigspin over a hip and ripped everything. Joe did a front smith on a bank to ledge, front 50 to drop, boardslide the kinked flatbar. Dan did a 50 up a ledge to manual down a box. Matt had long front 5-0s on the ledge at the top. So much more that I am forgetting right now. I had a couple tricks I was hyped on. Manny the top of the box to cali grind down and a crooks on the bank to ledge.

That is the first time I skated a whole day in months. Felt great. Seems like the arthritis cream helps. That and skating with a super fun crew. Nullbraska!