Picked up Fuzz then met Skelly, Fuller and Chadman at the Northglenn park. It was in the mid 30s, but it felt even colder. Must have been some humidity in the air. There was 3 other people at the park, some other Team Pain park builders and an Arvada ATF machine. Warming up was straight up embarrassing with those dudes there. It was cool having to park to just 8 people, but everyone else was ripping so hard it was hard to find the will to warm up. But it happened. Fuzz did his first ollie in months over the cheese wedge gap right away. Skelly says he was just cruising, but I saw him ripping all over the place. Chadman did a huge back 180 over the hip as well as a bolts biggie heel. I’ll skip ahead to the goods. Everyone but Dave, Chad and I started skating the pool. They were all ripping when I would look over and Skelly had DRI/Slayer cranking out of his boom box. Dave and I tried the cheese wedge gap for awhile, but couldn’t commit. Chadman tried to hype us with a hardflip, but he couldn’t get it. We all skated the bowl after awhile. The Team Painers left. Dave, Skelly and Jack were still killing the bowl so we joined them. Chadman slid out and slammed into the vert wall. Ouch. Fuzz did a fakie tail stall to sal flip back to tail. So sick! Chadman left. Dave and I were the only ones cruising the street area and I was finally feeling warmed up and having a blast. I got a line with a bigflip on the flat bank and then came back around and noseslid the big hubba. I’ve never tried that one before so I was really hyped. Also got a kickflip to fakie and a fakie flip on the flat bank. Fuller was doing some rad lines where he would manual the pyramid up top, ollie up the step up, do some grind on the little qps and then tried back lip to fakie on the weird qp. I also forced myself to do some ollies both ways over the hip. They were bad, but at least I finally tried some. Then the lights shut off. First time at a park in awhile, should probably do that more often. Fun crew too.

I got some free pool coping awhile ago and couldn’t resist the urge to make little Rampy even harder to skate. Skelly, Carleigh, Ollie and Jake helped us get close to finishing the upgrade on Sunday.

It was fun learning this process and doing the grouting between tiles. I just have to finish the decks and get some Salba Sauce on the coping.

After a fun afternoon of working on Rampy (photos soon) we hit Southern Hills as it started getting dark and a nasty wind kicked in. The crew was Jake, Carleigh and I. The temperature was below freezing, and way colder when the gusts would hit. There were patches of ice on some of the benches. Brrrr. But we skated and everyone seemed to be excited about it. Carleigh mostly worked on back 180s on flat or into the little bank. She also did some noseslides and got into 180 nose grinds. I was kind of all over the place. When we built Rampy the first time we also took a break at Southern Hills. Although Jason was along for that one. Argh. I really like that spot. I mostly just cruised around for awhile and did some basics and enjoyed the pop a new board brings. I got a couple lines I was pretty happy with. First one was ollie over the corner of a bench, noseslide to fakie, fakie varial flip, heelflip, bail a crook. Other one was front 50 front shove out, halfcab flip, front noseslide (landed so bad!). God a good feeling crooks too. Came close to front 5-0 shove out on the bench too, but it got too dark and windy for us to stand it. Jake keeps getting better. His kickflips were looking good and he had some nice noseslides and halfcab noseslides. He kept almost slamming on front 50s so started doing front tails instead. That’s sicker anyway and he had a nice one or two to fakie as well. Fun session even though it was so cold.

Was pretty uninspired, but feeling fat and figured I should hit the ramp for a bit. It wasn’t fun. I think I was looking too forward to the pool coping that would be put on it over the weekend. At one point I told myself I needed to do 10 frontside tricks. I got to 8 and was trying frontside feebles, got close on the first one then kept getting further and further away so decided to stop skating.