Such an awesome night. I had to sell some boards to SOL after work so I went there, met up with Dean and waited for Trick Factory to show up in the Square State bus. They took so long that I was actually able to beat Allan in a game of foosball (granted I lost about 10 games). Then we hit the road to Fort Collins for the BBQ/demo. When we arrived it wasn’t that crowded, but that didn’t stop Jack and I from not skating the park. It quickly turned to chaos and any chance I had of skating the park was crushed. I watched for awhile. The Lifebloods and Blood Wizards were killing it. Especially this dude. The Fort Collins locals were shredding too. Watching skating is awesome and all, but it was super nice out and there was a perfectly good parking lot to be skated. I think I played four or five games of SKATE total. All with Jack, some with others included. I could go into tedious details, but I wont. I felt great. Arthritis was nowhere to be found, I had energy, etc. Super happy about that. Jack could have easily won all the games had he done tricks like switch heel, switch flip, etc. But he’s nice like that and would limit the tricks I couldn’t do to a couple a game. I think I landed almost every flipper I’ve ever done. Including a nollie tre and nollie varial flip in the same game. Fuzz had the three basic fakie heelflip tricks and the halfcab back heel took out everyone. It was a blast skating like this. I landed on several fakie tres and b/s flips, but never got either of those tricks. Only got one treflip too. But yeah, so much fun. At the end I started doing slappy crooks on a curb and one of the bigwigs at Lifeblood gave me a shirt. I’d like to think it was because he was hyped on the slappy crooks, but who knows, he probably just felt sorry for me. I did a few kickflips at this point that felt like the best kickflips I’ve done. Happy times. I tried to teach Conor how to do slappy crooks and rumor has it he landed one, but it sure took him a long time. Ha. A bunch of Bloods piled in the bus on the way home. Bonus.