Headed up to the wonderful city of Fort Collins on a friday night. The plan was to drop off boards, skate for awhile, then check out Taylor Dehart’s photo exhibit. After MRKT we parked a couple blocks away and found some random curb cut to dork around on. Jack did a cool slappy thing. I tried to copy and ATE SHIT. I guess I ran into part of the opposite curb cut and just slammed right into the uphill one. It hurt really bad.

Then we went to the mini slappy curb spot. The paint had chipped away quite a bit making it not quite as fun as when Chad and I discovered it a few weeks prior. Everyone was kinda doing their own thing. I had a run with a bad crooks and some slappies that ended up past the three stair area and down below. So fun, but I was still hurting pretty bad and wasn’t able to put my all into skating. Andy joined us! So stoked. Him and Rob were getting into some rad tricks on the ledge. Rob did back 50 then back smith and was looking like he was in the groove when disaster struck on a front 180 nosegrind and he slid out to his back and wrist. It was a brutal slam. Carleigh was doing slappies and skating flatground. Jack was doing long lines of flatground that were pretty amazing and Andy and I enjoyed the heck out of watching it. Back bigspin off the curb, halfcab flip, treflip, kickflip, cruising. We kinda skated the boardslide curb on the other side of the tracks. Jack did some cool 180 crooks, kickflips, bluntslides. Then we went back across the tracks and skated flat for quite some time. Jack, Rob and I played a game of SKATE that Jack won. We did a lot of 180 variations, I did my best 43 shifty ever, Jack and I got 3 flips, all 3 of us got b/s flips, Jack eventually won in the end with fakie tre. Rob and Andy chilled. Carleigh was doing kickflips followed by varial flips and put down a heelflip or two. Jack did a swtich tre, a fakie bigger flip, fakie cab bigspin and probably a million other tricks. I finally somewhat wore off the pain from the earlier slam. I fell a lot and some of them hurt way more then they should, but it was fun. I got a line of fakie flip, halfcab flip, b/s flip. Also managed fakie bigflip, f/s h/c flip, some more and finished with a treflip. Could have gone without the harsh slam in the first minute of skating, but other then that it was fun.

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