Super hyped for this premiere tonight!

Reactive arthritis is the gift that keeps on giving. My arthritis pain isn’t much anymore, but the penecillin I’m still taking are reeking havoc on my insides. I had another night of no sleep and a few unwanted visits to the toilet. Ugh. So later on when Carleigh picked me up I felt super drained. She was tired too. We got to NorthGLENn park and it was super crowded. Sam, Bernie and Derek were there. We met Skelly and Dave Fuller there too.

Starting out was not easy for Carleigh and I. This was the first time I’ve skated without my knee brace in a long time. It felt really weird initially and took some getting used to. I used it as an excuse to watch Derek and his buddy Nate skate. They were destroying it. Derek was skating as faster then I’ve seen anyone skate before. It was insane. He did everything then ended his session trying to ollie from the clam shell into the jersey barrier which is about 12 feet. He got close, but had to leave when Nate wrecked himself. Skelly was ripping. The crew of fort collins kids destroying the bowl was pretty insane. One kid especially doing every trick he wanted to. The last run he did was bonkers. Lien air followed by lien to disaster. Backside boneless to tail followed by backside boneless. Huge backside ollies and a monster stalefish to close out the session and send me posing elsewhere. Dave was ripping. Frontside pivot on the jersey barrier followed by a long boardslide transfer into the bank was ridiculous. Carleigh slammed good on some noseslides that she’s done a bunch of times before, has found that tailsliding the whole hip is too easy and got at least one pop shove over the hip. After the crowds died down I skated a little better and got me a line I was super hyped on. Front 50 the little ledge, roll on the bank then go over the the little narrow qp and did front feeble, front slash on the bank, turn around on the clam shell then noseslide down the little hubba. I was actually skating! Later on we hit the bowl for awhile where I made a complete ass of myself, skelly ripped it, dave ripped it and has the best frontside pivots, carleigh feebled “a whole tile”, and the fort collins kids embarrassed the antihero team. Right at the end Skelly and I tried 360 flips and Carleigh tried varial flips. We all got close, but the lights shut off an hour early. Doh. We’re blaming daylight savings time. I was hyped to skate without my knee brace and actually try some tricks. It’ll be awhile before I’m back to my normal self. I’m still worried about my knee tendonitis and the new digestive issues are really taking away my energy. Doh.