After a fun day of hanging with the family, a couple naps and some cleaning I went out for a quick solo session around the golden hour. I pushed around the parking lot a few times for warmup (once switch), did a couple ollies up curbs. I’m still so hesitant to ollie initially in fear of knee pain. But the knee brace seems to be working so far. I was sucking really bad for awhile. Really really bad. It was depressing. But after awhile I started at least trying harder tricks. Sometimes that’s all I need. I had a line going I was trying. Back crooks the little part of the ledge, front smith stall kickflip out on the curb then tailslide. The crooks started out really bad, but after awhile I was doing them pretty good for me. I never got the smith kickflip out, but I did land on it a few times. I never got a tailslide on the ledge either. I did get one front noseslide to fakie which felt good even though I didn’t slide it much and pivoted the landing like champ. I posed some front smith grinds, landed on nollie varial flip and got a really bad treflip with all hands on the ground. My arthritis didn’t feel very good and flip tricks still hurt. Ugh. It seems to help if I dress warm and sweat it out. Kickflips feel different. It might be because the knee brace sets my kneecap a certain way. Kind of feels like I’m relearning them and mobbing them a little. Great. The only good that can come from that is if I somehow lose the annoying reverse superman I do when I kickflip. Oh well, I skated hard, tried some stuff I don’t normally do and that feels okay.

I love waking up early on Saturdays. I got some Four/Null things done. Played football with Ollie. Sanded the cupboards. Then met up with Carleigh in Crisis (or did I mean Carleigh and the Crisis team) at the same downhill ledge spot we keep meeting up at. Fine with me, I love that spot. I might have even said “Oh wait, there are other spots in Denver?”. Ha. That place is such a great spot to warm up. I did a few runs just riding down the stairs then into the street for some powerslides. I also slammed pretty good trying back 180 off the curb into the street. Carleigh worked on perfecting front tails and I tried a few slow boardslide pop outs. I got a couple ugly ones so I started trying out that dream line of mine again. Got the manual a few times, figured out the powerslide and setup for the boardslide, but never put the whole line together. Stoked to get close though. Blaine was skating too. Conor almost got a sick line. Then we went across the street where Jack did some silly stuff before skating a few blocks so Jack could do some serious stuff. One the way back Carleigh got buck, did here 4 long flat 4 ollies and did some wallrides over a security guard.

Next up was Stapleton so Jack once again could execute technical trickery on his skateboard. Which he did to perfection. Carleigh boardslid it like it was nothing then struggled with noseslides before slamming super hard. I skated too (if you can call it that). I was barely able to boardslide off the two height. I tried a line of switch front 180 down one block then boardslide off the two. It took forever. The only thing I was hyped on was ollieing up all three blocks (one at a time duh) mainly because I haven’t ollied up stuff in awhile. Oh I did pose a few kickflip 50s which I”m pretty sure I could do if my hair was feathered just right. Fun day. Feels good to street skate even if I’ve lost most of my confidence. We checked out an amazing looking bank to curb after that then ate some good pizza and then went to a fun party at the No Love warehouse.