After some early morning basketball with Ollie I went over to Jason’s where I met Fuzz and Neil. We got Jason in his electric wheelchair and loaded it up into his van, picked up Jake and hit this spot again. It’s name has become Retal Curbs! Like Red Curbs, but metal. We met Dave, Brian, Carleigh and Denise here too. It was rad seeing Jason with some freedom cruising around the spot on his own and he even pulled me in for a boardslide. Ha. Lots of boardslides went down initially. Fuzz and Neil quickly added a bunch more like lipslides, nollie lips, etc. Jake had quite a few tricks too. A random Boulder skater showed for awhile and took some sketchy looking falls. Dave killed it as usual. This time he got the front 50 back 180 out. Also front 50 to front board. Feeble transfers, everything. Fuzz had a sick fakie front 50. Brian had a sick front board. Denise had a cute drink. Jake stacked up quite a few tricks too, but I’m failing to remember them now.

I had gotten kinda bored with the spot and started looking around and ended up putting down a really fun line. Ollie the little red flag on the far left, manual the median, curve right and do a treflip on flat then a boardslide on the flat bar followed by a front 180 over a couple cracks. Not all that cool, but man it was fun. Carleigh showed pretty late in the session and I saw her get into a hurricane on the bar. Gnarly.

Then we went to Crest View Elementary where we skated hard forever. The long aluminum bench is kinda intimidating initially. At least to us old people. Jason was cruising around in his chair again. It was awesome to see his smile. Neil had some good boardslides on the first bench. Coming the other way had some good front 50s. Jake was on the same tip. Tried to get front shove out, but didn’t quite. Fuzz killed it. Boardslide the long bench. Ollie the bench, back 50 the tall side, boardslide transfer to tail crack and a lot more. Carleigh was going for a line of kickflip then front 50, but slid out when she got into 50. Dave took a super gnarly slam. It didn’t stop him though. He almost got a line with front 50 then front board transfer. But that’s what he slammed hard on. He got boardslide transfer too. I couldn’t boardslide the long bench, but probably did 50 kickflips up the curb going the other way to set up for front 50s (which I normally bailed). Got one with a shove out near the end. Took forever. But anytime there is a curb to kickflip up I’m gonna be having fun. Dave and I also got boardslides to manual. I had a little line of boardslide then crook grind fall off then sit on the bench. I tried to hang with Fuzz doing ollie up then ollie up again to manual, but couldn’t. Fuzz did it so sick with manual drop to manual drop to manual. He’s good. Dave did a super sick hippy jump too. Fuzz and I messed around with this little downhill line to curb cut. I had a fun run of kickflip into the handicap ramp, ollie a crack halfway down then ollied into the downhill curb cut. Fuzz switch 180’d in then ollied out of the curb cut over a crack. Pretty darn awesome. Super fun day. Then we went to 3 Margs and Jason’s where we watched the documentary on Skatopia which is quite horrible (because of the content). But all in all a totally awesome day.

After a busy family morning watching Ollie play two flag football games back to back (scoring 5 or 6 touchdowns!) Rob came over and we went to this ledge/hip spot. It was immediately fun. It’s so awesome that Rob is around again. He had a backside boneless over the hip pretty early on that hyped me up big time. Neither of us were killing the ledge, the downhill/uphill parts of it are weird. But we were starting to get some basics down when Neil showed and ripped it up. He would skate the ledge uphill, land a trick then go back down the bike path to a trick on the hip, then back up to the ledge. He did some really good ollies over the hip and one foots. Rob tried to get pretty tech on the ledge with 180 nosegrinds and back 180 fakie 50s. We also did some back 180’s off the first part of the ledge like a kicker or started with flatground tricks at the top (I went with heelflip). Near the end I tried a bunch of 3 flips over the hip, but couldn’t quite get them so I went for kickflip to fakie on the steeper part of the bank. So fun. Neil did one too. Rob had a steezy tail block. I added a fakie flip and kind of a fakie flip over the hip thing and we moved on to an old classic Boulder spot.

This is the spot! Great flat ground and a manny pad. Perfect! They have added the bike racks since the last time I was there so it’s not quite as easy to skate, but still awesome. Neil manny and nose mannied the long way quick. Then did a line with a nollie front 180, halfcab manual then nose manual the long way. Rob had nose manny and manny quick too. Also tried a line of manual a corner then front 180 nose manual the other corner. Didn’t quite get it. Also had some good flatground lines with no complys, shoves, etc that were sick. I went more the trick up trick down route. Kickflip up/down was real quick. Started going kickflip up, treflip off and after a few sketchy ones put one down that felt amazing. Few tries later added b/s flip off. Finally did the manny and nose manny the long way. Then added a weird halfcab flip off and a line with front 180 up, a horrible sw mongo push and then a fakie bigflip off. So stoked! Ended by doing another treflip off and called it a day. What a blast! We grabbed some grub then went to the art show at Installation which was really fun too.