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.

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