Met up with Carleigh after a fun and productive morning of breaking up a tree so it can go out in the compost pile. Met up with Carleigh after some food and watching Marc Suciu’s Cross Continental part a few times (so good!). We went to campus. First order of business was documenting some new skateboard racks in front of the building for Carleigh’s boss or something I didn’t quite understand. We rolled around for a bit before settling in on the weird long two stair spot. A few ollies up/down later we were looking to move on and I had the dumb idea of trying to kickflip a little 6″ flat gap on top of a somewhat narrow ledge that has a huge drop on one side. Just standing in the setup area gave me butterflies.

These kickflips literally took us forever. The flat gap isn’t that high up, but just standing in the setup seriously messed with me. I got mine before she did, but it took both of us forever.

We kind of dorked around at some other spots for awhile. Nothing special. Jack joined us shortly before Neil and his kids (ha) Alec and Blake did. We did some tricks into the mellow bank thing below the CU 14 for a bit. Then I noticed some new curbs and started trying to wallie 1 then ollie the next. Took me forever. Everyone else did it within a few tries. For how much I skate it’s amazing how bad I am at ollies. Carleigh had the best ever accidental wallie on the second one that would have been the death of me, but she pulled it off. Neil was all over the place killing ollies, nose mannies, swearing, looking at college girls. I think he got halfcab the first one, back 180 the second. Jack wasn’t supposed to really be skating due to stitches in his hand, but he still killed it. He almost still fakie bigspinned the second curb. This isn’t just a parking block, it’s a curb with a little drop after it. Not big at all, but not two regular curbs in a row. You could also hit it going sideways. Ollie taller curb then a trick out of a mini kicker over a curb. I got front 180 over one and tried b/s flip a different one. I only came close once really. Jack did a blunt transfer all easy. Around now some CU Safety Staff (or something) threatened to kick us out. One of the tools was wearing DCs and saying we should be doing first try tricks like nollie tres. It just bummed me out. Nothing like a kook to remind me that I have always sucked at skateboarding. He eventually said we had to leave if he landed a nollie tre first try. He didn’t. Oh well, I was still over it as were others.

Then after some fun hill cruising we ended up here. This thing is pretty much perfect, but weirder then it looks with the downhill approach. Jack didn’t have any problems of course. Pretty much every stock trick first try. Blake, Jack and I dorked around on it uphill too. Blake did the most epic accidental front 50 to pressure hardflip out. Mind blowing! Jack did a bunch of cool tricks like back tail stall shove out. I got a crooks jib and a few other tricks that I landed with my butt sticking way out. At the end Carleigh got a couple really good boardslides, Blake did a halfcab noseslide and I slid some switch slappy noseslides about 3 inches. Hyped I tried something on it though. All in all a blast of a day and another reminder that street skating is the best.

Super nice day. Meant to bring my skate stuff with me to work so I could skate right after, but I forgot. So I went home and the family was running errands so I decided to skate a little before they got home. I kinda wanted more then just flippers, but was so limited on time. I did manage to do some manuals on the sidewalk and ollie a little sidewalk crack gap out of a curb cut I’ve never noticed before. Didn’t get too tech on the flippers and a 3 flip took forever.