skate journal: had fun at CSU even though my feet felt like bricks (1/10/2012)
Went up to Ft Collins after work to sell some boards at MRKT then maybe do some skating. Bernie bailed and Dean slept through my calls so I went solo. It worked out though because Ft Collins has a one of the friendliest skate scenes around and this dude Jake I’ve skated with a couple times through Chad was at MRKT and wanted to skate campus too. We went across the way to CSU, one of my favorite places to skate. I had been feeling sore/weird all day and on my first push I knew I was gonna have a tough time. If I was solo I would have probably turned around right then and not skated. I keep hearing that with my arthritis I will hurt the day before a big weather change. Guess that explains it. I had no coordination, my feet felt like bricks and my knees weren’t good either. Ugh. We had fun though. We started with the ultra dork spot above. Jake killed it. Back D, back blunt, beanplant to fakie, side blunt to 50 (photo) and more. I really didn’t to anything. Some pivots, front tail stalls, one bad crail stall, got close to front tail on the wood to disaster on the curb to shove out but not really that close. We had fun though and we got dirt and mud all over our wheels, shoes and grip. Next we found an angled ledge coming out of a tunnel. I tossed some horrible attempts at front noses down it. Jake got a noseslide and a crooks to fakie which apparently he just learned earlier in the day. Some cruising around we ended up at the Clark building with all the two and three stairs. Man I was feeling my arthritis at this point. It took at least 15 tries to ollie down the three stair and it took Jake ollieing up it after the two to get my hyped enough to do it. We posed some more tricks and Jake probably landed a bunch more. It was fun times. We hit a few other things briefly, but mostly just walked along and stuff. I wish my arthritis would go away.