Woke up early feeling well rested and since I have the late shift at work (start at 9:15) this week I started thinking about skating before work at Boulder park and couldn’t come up with an excuse not to. So there I was a little after 8am before the flurries hit carving around the park kinda hyped. I haven’t skated there in probably a year and it didn’t take long before I figured out why. I mean I still had fun and all, I just don’t know if I’ll want to go back soon. I didn’t intend to skate the ledges or do flippers on the bank. Just carve around and do some tranny tricks. Had a couple fun runs with small ollies over various hips. There was snow in the middle of the mini part so I couldn’t really skate that. I’ve never done anything on the coping of the deep end before and tried a couple axle stalls. One I bailed when I shouldn’t have, another I had a pretty interesting feeling bail/slam/run out. Didn’t keep trying though for whatever reason. Then I left for work right when the snow started falling.

It was supposed to be 60 mph wind gusts. Somhow Boulder was avoiding it and John and I took advantage. I was pretty tired and uncoordinated. I almost rolled my ankle a couple times and was like 5-20 on kickflips for the night. Horrible! We mostly skated the non-red waxed curb. We started mostly with slappy slide tricks before getting gnar with tricks like front 50s. Ha, I actually got several back 50s which felt great as that trick normally escapes me now. John almost got a front shove back 50, back big front nose. Flip tricks were hard for both of us. I didn’t really land any flippers I was hyped on, varial flips were working though. I got a kick back 50, bailed a bunch of kick back tails, never landed a front lip. Somehow nose manuals were being super elusive and it took a combined 50 tries before I finally landed one. John slammed and kind of hurt his bruised rib so sat down for a bit. I tried treflips and nose manual shoves out. Got close to both, but then the wind kicked in and we bolted.