Whew. Had a long day. Have the early shift at work so got off work at 3:30, drove to 303 in Denver to sell boards, grabbed some pizza nearby, hit Wax Trax to pickup The Thermals “Blood, Body, Machine” on vinyl (I’ve wanted this for so long!) then drove to Lafayette to meet Neil, Jake, John, Blake and whoever else was there. The park was pretty vacant when we first arrived. I kind of followed Neil around for awhile and tried to at least touch my tail as many times as he did. His ollies were always way higher, further, steezier and better. Blake said he was working on front 180 up fakie big off the manny pad and did it first try I saw. I managed to manual it. Cruising around that park is really fun when it’s not crowded. Neil and I started dorking around trying to front board up the last bit of the round rail. He did some good ones. Around now John showed up and joined in. We had a fun little front tail going on the manhole cover as a setup to turn around at. I got a tiny bonk one. John hates front boards so tried switch noseslides instead (wtf?). I hucked a few kick front boards, but got nowhere close. John did a Madollie to tail kind of thing and it looked fun so I tried and got one too. Not sure I’ll ever be able to bring that anywhere else. Blake did a crooks bonk coming up and Neil got a front nosegrind bonk up. So sick. Jake showed up and the next game was flatground trick, ledge trick, trick on the small horsetooth quarterpipe. Jake did kickflip, manual scrape, pivot fakie first try. Wow. John had a ton of flippers like treflip, nollie flip, front shove, etc. Neil had front shove, front lip, front ollie. I couldn’t land a flip trick and when I got to the qp I wanted to try front pivot. Got close enough you could tell what it was, that was about it. Next we played in the flow bowl. Asian Jeff and another dude were slaying it. Crail blocks, smiths, everything. Jake was killing it of course. John too. I had my favorite session on trannie taller then Rampy in awhile. Eventually got a run with a front d and a back 50 in it. Yippee. Carving that thing is fun. Most people went over to the fish bowl after that, but I was kind of all over in the street area. Not sure how, because I didn’t do much. I wussed out of trying the noseslide down the 3 stair. Played a game of SKATE with John and Jake that took awhile. Struggled with 3 flip, fakie bigflip, fakie var flip. Ugh, it’s funny how rarely I land tricks. I did manage to win it though and somehow pulled out a f/s flip when I was at SKAT. It was fun though and overall the night was awesome.

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