Woke up early and got here around 9am. We drove through a rain storm and the park was wet when we got there. Dan, Matt and I messed around with no complys on a dry patch of sidewalk for awhile to try and get warmed up. I had some dangerous bails and my body let me know it was not rested or happy I was skating again after six hours the night before. I didn’t do anything worth writing about. Joe was a board sliding machine. Dan and Neil were doing boardslide transfers on the flat bar. Matt was ripping everything. Eckert was carving the snake run. I had to leave after about an hour to head back to Boulder and see India graduate middle school. So crazy.

While I was gone Neil brought the fremonsters to the arvada foundation spot and it sounded like they loved it. I met up with them at Crisis and we went across the street to Safeway ledges. Not the best session of the trip. Dan slammed right away. Joe did like 100 tricks though. Matt tried an uphill line. Neil sat. Blake and Alec ollied stuff.

Then we deciding to drive while it was raining to Denver since we had an in to the new Bad Egg pool through Tim. It was a risk. First, it was raining and second I didn’t know if any of the Fremonsters would like it. It was a good sign when we started getting close and saw sunlight and somehow pulled into a dry pool. It ended up being an incredible session. I’ve never heard so many people say “this is the best session ever”, “this is the best skate day”, etc, etc. Everyone carved tile in the deep end. I don’t remember all that much as I’m writing this way too many days later. But I found photos of everyone on facebook and that helps make it easy. Eckert killed it. I think he got most of his patented tricks. Rock fakie, halfcab rock, front slash, fakie pivot, more.

I had a blast too. Got some back 50s in the shallow end pretty quickly then struggled with them later on. Got a couple non-decked front rocks, a front slash, some fun carves and was just stoked the crew was happy with the spot.

Tim rules! He didn’t even skate hard, but he slayed it. He was more on baby duty watching his new little guy. So rad. He was on the tile more then he was in the flats. It was amazing.

Matt got a line or two that I’m drawing a blank on right now. He ripped it.

Neil had a tough time with the grinds initially, got scared to drop in for awhile, then figured everything out and had some really good long runs. So gonna miss Neil.

Dan was the surprise here. I thought after looking at the pool he didn’t even want to skate. Doh. But little by little he kept improving and before long he was doing ollie to front smith and ollie to front d in the same line. He ollied into the deep end and was carving like he claims to have never before.

Carleigh slashed the deep end in her first run, had a lot of grinds and did a proper back 50 in the deep. So sick.

Ashley also ripped it. She is just a few months after having a baby and has a torn ACL, but was still charging it. At one point Dan said one of this funniest quotes of the night. He asked Carleigh if she had the same Null wheels as him, then he asked Ashley if she just had a baby, yeap. So then he said “Apparently I need to inspect my wheels and have a baby then maybe I can grind this.” So funny. Ashley worked on layback grinds for awhile and got a super good one in the end.

Joe made a lot of jokes about how there is not transition in Nebraska and the first time he carved tile in the deep end he stopped and said “I touched tile, I don’t even care anymore, I’m too stoked.” It was awesome. He got quite a few tricks and almost finished with a Joe Hamilton at closing time.

Man we had fun. So happy the Fremonsters loved the pool and can’t wait to go back there.