Matt and I met up with John, Rob and Neil at Safeway ledges on a perfect weather evening. Cloudy in the 70s. It was perfect outside. Matt and I got their first. He got to the grind basics before me with front and back 50s right away, 5-0s, tails, and went on to land lots of flip tricks and got into back tail on the tall fence ledge. I got going kind of quickly for me though. Crooks on the lower fence ledge, kind of a front smith, a very short kick back 5-0 (stoked and I was actually trying 5-0), my flatground was not great but I was hucking nollie bigspins feeling like they were possible. Rob skates this spot so well. He did a perfect 180 nosegrind and his patented back 50s amongst a bunch more tricks. Neil was hurting and kept it mellow til later. John had a sick bigspin front nose, a sick impossible, nollie flips and more.

Then we went to the park which was pretty crowded. Dave, Blake, Eric, Darin and many more were there. Obviously with how crowded it was and with so many people there is no way I can document everything that went down. I’ll try to remember some of the highlights. John was lining out the blue ledge with back blunts on the quartapotty and his patented “switch” front noseslides and almost switch back nose 270 out. Dave manualled the deck of the brick qp. Neil was killing it with nose manuals, manuals, lipslides everywhere. Matt took awhile to back tail the tall brown ledge, fakie 5-0 blue ledge, treflips on lock, ollied the trash can with ease, back 50 the double set hubba. I was was having fun and skating somewhat hard, but can’t think of much worthy of writing about. I got a fakie nosegrind on the blue ledge, front d revert on quartapotty, hurricane on qp, a slow back 50 on the black ledge, but nothing new really.

Then we played a game of SKATE. Dave, me, Rob, John and Matt. I need to take a break from these I think because I got so mad because I’m sucking at flatground lately. I bailed a no comply 180 then Rob went right after me and did one which I got a letter on. Then it was my turn again and I bailed a pop shove. Then Rob did pop shove revert which I also got a letter on. I held off focusing my board at that point. I got out a couple tricks later and felt so mad I wanted to leave, but remained at the park for the last few minutes of lights. Overall a really fun night with the exception of how mad I got for bailing tricks I can normally land in SKATE.