After work I helped Liz clean awhile then pick up India from ballet and we all ate dinner. We were supposed to finish watching the 80s movie Labyrinth after, but India had too much homework. She said she might be able to finish in 30 minutes or so and I wanted to skate. Rather then just walk to Rampy I wanted to get out and enjoy the first long sleeved session of they year. I went to a real close shopping center (Basemar) and kind of tooled around for awhile. Tried this dumb little manny to quick up, but just slammed a bunch. Did a front rock on a bench in front of Egg & I. Got a front shove down the 2 stair by the Goodwill. Then felt kind of Quikish with a fast ollie up a curb to ollie over another curb to little gap in front of Taco Bell. My knees were not feeling so good, but I was able to skate it seemed. Around then I got a text from home saying India still had too much homework so I bailed out of that shopping center.

I almost drove to the Arvada park, but remembered that I drove from FedEx earlier in the day and noticed that I have never skated at the shopping center near Arapahoe & 55th. So I went there. A few things looked fun, but there was either cars or Ball Aerospace security cars parked at them. I found this little yellow curb spot below.

This photo kinda sucks and doesn’t really show the spot at all. It’s only covered over the curb and there is way more around it. Manny pads, gaps, these weird yellow kickers and more. I started at the weird yellow kicker and did a weird kickflip off the kicker onto the narrow ending of it. It was really dumb, hard and since it was street skating it felt totally awesome. Around then I noticed my board was totally cracked down the middle which hyped me up knowing I could go home and set up a new board after the session. I kept skating though and had a blast. I did a lot of lines/tricks.

One line started ollie’ing this little gap that the photo doesn’t show very well. It’s tiny of course, I guess the photo is just showing how bad the landing was. But I ollied that, front 50s a curb at speed then ollied up a curb to little weird wallie tailslide. I also tried ollie’ing the gap past the sign, but it was way too big for me. Did kick back tail (no slide) then ollie the cone. One ridiculously slow, wanna be tech line of sw 180 front 50 “nollie” back 180 out, back 180 onto the slanted curb to fakie grind pivot out (?) then a switch slappy noseslide 270 out. Ha it was so ridiculous and fun. I can’t have that much fun at parks. Other tricks I did were nose manny the taller manny pad which was hard because it’s so short in distance that it felt like a nosebonk (which I can’t do), 180 nose manny, almost front 5-0 kickflip out, some more fun stuff. Oh and the whole time I had the new completely amazing and epic Dinosaur Jr album blasting in my ears. Awesome.