Got a random text from Ft Collins Jake wondering about skating for the day and invited him along with the old guy sunday crew. It was rad. Neil, Jake, Ft Collins Jake and me initially. This was the first spot near Neil’s house. Not sure why we’ve never been there. It’s basically as skatepark. Metal curbs and a flat bar as well as the blocks. Warming up was tough for me, tougher than normal. I had some back 50s on the curb, boring slides on the weird flat bar and managed to ollie up the tall ledge. Neil was all over the place landing a lot as usual trying to line things out. Front shove then boardslide the tall part of the flat bar then a manual or something. Tall Jake (Ft Collins Jake) tried some hard stuff. Little Jake (ha) had a few clean ollies up the tall ledge, manuals and kickflips. We didn’t stay too long.

Then we arrived at this ditch. It needed some cleaning and luckily someone had left a broom/dustpan to get it done.

We stayed here awhile. Tall Jake busted some big f/s ollies! Neil had some nice backside ones over the bush too. Jake did front tail and front pivot on a sketchy rock. Neil also had some sick lines with ollies, no comply bonelesses (?), no comply to tail, etc. He was ripping. I had a b/s flip on the bank super easy like second try then couldn’t do it again. Weird. I mostly tried to do tricks on the weird double bank at the far end and failed. Bernie showed up and did some neat stuff like front rock on the steep part, some good ollies and stuff. After this we went to a weird wallride spot where nothing really went down other then Bernie doing some cool manual combos on the medians and me doing some powerslides.

We saw this spot on the way to the wallride spot and decided to go back to it. It ended up being a super sick spot. Neil and tall Jake sat it out as they were too sore though. My legs were super sore too. In particular my knees. It was more then just soreness though, clearly some arthritis flare up was happening. I didn’t care, the spot was too cool. That doesn’t mean I skated good, I had to work hard for everything and seemed to skate even slower then normal. Tricks I got on the ledges consist of some real tech ones like front 50, back board, back nose, back nose fakie, back crooks. At the end of the day I also got front noseslide as I felt it necessary to try and bring a little Jason into the session. I did kickflip up the curb several times to setup for backside stuff. My highlight was a run of fakie bigspin up the curb, crooks the ledge and kind of a kickflip off the other curb. The fakie bigspin hyped me up though. Almost got a line of front 50 then treflip off the curb. I was going so slow though. Ha. Jake was slaying it. Front tail, front 5-0, back noseslide, back noseslide shove and a line of front tail then kickflip off the curb. Bernie had a ridiculous line. Kickflip up the curb, front tail the ledge, front nosegrind the other ledge then back 180 into the parking lot. I think it was actually crazier then that, but I can’t remember. Bernie rules it. I seem to have forgotten that it was 70 out and sunny. So nice out! Fun day, these “old guy” days are fun even if Neil and I were the only somewhat old ones.

Amazing. Completely amazing.