Wanted to skate downtown Boulder. Parked and opened my car door and the wind was so intense I just shut my door, cursed and drove to my favorite wind protected garage. Things started really slow. Borderline board focus slow. I bailed like 3 kickflips in a row. That just doesn’t happen. So I decided to try it over a parking curb to start a line and they started working. Shortly after came a weird sequence of events that hyped me up big time. Skating with John the other night reminded me that I could do fakie back tails on low curbs years ago. So I tried one on the sidewalk curb, got in, slid a whoppin’ inch or two and randomly decided to shove out. Landed it. I had never done that before. Followed it with a fakie flip and then a switch slappy crooks to forward which I had also never done before. Two new tricks in one line. Not sure that has ever happened before for me. I went on to have a pretty great session with the exception of struggling at treflips. Part of the flip trick problem I think is for the first time in like 5 years I didn’t buy shoes that were small for my feet. I had been doing the snug fit for flippers, but it hurts when you run out of tricks. Anyways, I told myself to get used to it and all seemed good. Over the parking block I got kickflip, no comply, front shove, halfcab, fakie ollie (sideways approach), fakie bigspin (took awhile) and b/s flip. I also did a lot of slappy tricks. Back 50, back feeble, back crooks, back crooks fakie, front 50, my best slappy front feeble ever, switch crooks to fakie (these are really new obviously so I was going slow and barely grinded) and a bunch of front crooks. I have no idea how, but I just committed to it with some speed finally and did a few that grinded pretty far. So freakin’ fun! I also got a front lip on the block that felt good. My flatground game wasn’t all that, but I did land a few heelflips again finally, a couple treflips, fakie flips, fakie varial flip, fakie bigflip, halfcab flips, varial flips. Tried a few ones I’ve only rarely done like fakie varial heel, nollie bigflip, switch varial flip. Got really close to the nollie bigflip, not the others. On the little sidewalk curb I tried a bunch of fakie tails with bigspin out. Why not? I’m going slow enough to try. Ha. Also got the best kick back tail I’ve done in awhile with a tiny slide. Came close to kickflip front 50. Lastly on the curved manny pad by the entrance I tried a bunch of manuals to no comply 180 out and felt kinda close, but never put it down. Best part of the new insoles/shoes is how little soreness I felt when I was done. Yea.