Got home from work feeling exhausted, sore, unmotivated. Took a nap, woke up and still felt blah. Tried to get hyped. I had gotten calls from Skelly, Fulltertron and FUzz and everyone was planning on northGLENn so I went with it too. After sitting in road construction forever I finally got there around the same time as everyone. 8pm. It was super nice out, a little cool, but perfect. I saw Dave slam about 4 times in the warm up phase so it made my pathetic carves and failed manuals not feel so bad. The park started to clear out and it seemed like it might just be our crew. And then before I could even enjoy it the park was mega crowded. The entire night I never got into a groove and felt very arthritic all night. It doesn’t just effect me physically, it makes the desire to try anything hard as well. The first real skating was the ledge area that Fuzz proceeded to slay. He had runs using the rail above then the ledge. Boardslide/noseslide to get warmed up. Boardslide, crooks. boardslide fakie/halfcab noseslide. ollie over the rail/back 50. Geez. and last front 180 the rail/fakie 50 the ledge. Killing it! I got ultra tech with boardslide then failed crooks. The boardslide took me a bit to commit to. I had to do some kickflips on flat to get my bearings a little straight. I think that’s my main problem with this park, there isn’t really an area to do flatground and get warmed up. I got a couple halfcab flips into the bank and posed kick back 50s on the ledge. I should do that. There were way too many people skating to document. Some highlights I saw were Fuzz’s ledge destruction as I mentioned. Fuller boardslide transfer into the bank, tricks on the jersey barrier, so much more. Big Mike is the f’ing man. No comply pole jams so easy, carve grinds so steezy. Seeing Skelly skate was sick. He skated the ledge area too and ollied the rail then front lipped the ledge. So good. The lights shut off early. Doh. A few lights stay on so we skated around. Dave did a crazy pole jam rock transfer after I fell on my butt trying just the pole jam rock. So I went and hid in an area doing flatground and finally feeling like I was skating. Got a few over 40 treflips (hands down) and a fakie bigflip that was my favorite feeling trick of the night. Mike did a rad wallride back 180 out. A few of us tried to ‘walk the dog’. Pretty sure I looked the dumbest. Dave tried to teach me layback boardslides down the hubba, but I said I needed at least a 20 stair hubba to learn it right. Night over. As horrible as I skated I left in a good mood. Probably because I did some flippers finally. I was the only one there that did a flip trick. WTF old farts.