Carleigh, Max, Dean and I headed out to Denver around noon to meet up with Derek at Denver Park. It was sunny and warm and it felt great (unless you are Dean who had the audacity to bitch about the warm weather wtf!). Derek showed up and as expected made our warming up look really dumb. Even Max, who was just sitting around sore from the day before who joined to pursue his social butterfly skills. Derek’s casual frontside wallride became motivation for the rest of us to do regular wallrides. Carleigh has done it before and after a good slam put them down on the regs. Dean and I battled it for awhile and were super close. I finally got one. Then we headed up to the downhill ledge spot for Derek to try a line he’s wanted to get forever.

When we first showed up the Denver Shop crew was there. Everyone was kinda warming up and stuff. Nathan Fantasia was killing it. The gap to manny gap the second 2 was crazy. Tyler had some nice flippers. Carleigh was doing downhill lines. Steven Gritz was killing. It was awesome. I did may manual first or second try and slammed pretty good on a powerslide on the roll away. Scraped up my elbow pretty good. Oh well. Then it was time to film Derek. He got his line! Hyped. After saying goodbye to Derek we went back to the 5 sets of two stairs as I wanted to try the early grab. I got it and it felt as dumb as I had hoped. Felt great to film a trick. Dean killed it too with four firecrackers then a front 180 in front of a cop car.

After that we kinda chased the Denver Shop dudes for awhile then met them on top of the Magnolia Hotel parking garage. They redid the parking lot and now there is a gap over rail. There is also sick concrete there and I basically skated flat for an hour straight while Steve and Nate went for tricks. It was fun and hot and awesome. I did most of my tricks except for the elusive treflip family. My no comply 180 followed by a f/s halfcab flip was my favorite. Most everyone else skated flatground too and it was fun.

After that we ate some food at Wahoos then went to a loading dock gap over rail for Carleigh. She’s 0-2, but that’ll change soon. Then we hit Broomfield park for about 20 minutes of pure awesomeness. Dean was ripping and landing on treflips! Get those dude! The last time I was at the park my arthritis was still too bad to skate. This time I felt amazing and I skated the best I have in a long time. Got back 50s on the blue curb, back 5-0, back 5-0 shove, kick back 5-0 almost, front d on the quartapotty, front feebs, ollied and manualled the downhill blue ledge, nose manualed the blue ledge, basically felt like I could skate again! This knee brace rules (even though it broke kind of)! I want to skate more!