Had one of those days were the kids were gonna be gone and Liz had other plans so I had all day to skate. My arthritis was sucking though and it was tough to find the motivation. I had new shoes to break in (this time I put the NB+ insole in them so they wouldn’t be as painful). I skated flat in front of the house for a bit, then went to Crisis to hang/sell boards. Then I headed to campus to wait for Dave. I skated the flagstone bank for awhile. I was feeling so uncoordinated and sore. I did a little line with a back 50 on the curb above it then ollied into the bank. Moved on to the library where I wanted to do a line. I wanted to ollie onto a ledge then ride through the skate stoppers, dork manual (ollie into board stall, lift up and end up in manual) then a flip trick. I didn’t think the dork manual would work though so instead I just ollied up onto the ledge and front 180’d off and followed it with a fakie flip. I did this a few times then it started raining right when Dave showed up. Doh.

So we went to Red Curbs. We warmed up for awhile and I realized I was so sore I couldn’t skate much so I started filming Dave. He stacked a line and 4 clips in like 20 minutes! Back 180 fakie 50s, fakie shove manual, front 5-0 to nose manual, halfcab noseslide. It was insane. He’s so good. I tried a GleNBD for awhile. Ride on to front 50 to no comply finger flip out. I’ve tried that for quite awhile without landing it before. I guess the trick is to be super stiff and sore though because I landed one then we got the camera out and I landed another one. Hyped!

Then we went back to CU since it was dry out and Dave filmed me try my line 41 times. Gotta like matching my age to the number of tries it took to get it. For awhile I was having a blast. I ended up being able to do the dork manual so went with it. Since I was so sore and stiff though the flip tricks after were not working. I eventually landed the line with a varial flip tic tac after. Eh. Still hyped to have gotten that though.

Then we went by this so Dave could try to boardslide it. Someone waxed the crap out of it though. He front 50’d it which was sick, but almost died on the boardslide. We called it a day then. I was so sore at this point I could barely walk to the car. Arthritis is lovely. Still hyped on finally working on our old man parts though. Hopefully we keep it up.

Got out of that customer conference in Longmont around lunch time and had a bit of time to kill before going back to work. I went to meet Dave at the covered pavilian and skate flat, but there was a bunch of people there. So naturally we skated this huge hubba across the street instead. It was kinda funny. Two 40+ year old dudes trying to slide a totally dry curb in front of a church. We ended up waxing them and almost got it, but got the boot instead. You had to drop off the first stair then slide down the rest. Then I went back to work.

After work I stopped at the research center ledge which was nice and shady. I ended up starting in back area with all the electrical boxes trying some dumb quick feet stuff. Ollie off a little drop, manual a curb then immediately roll off a two stair. Then I tried to ollie onto a narrow curb high slab and ollie down to another one. But ultimately I just went to disaster instead because I was too scared to land in such a narrow space. Then I did a couple crooks and moved up to the hill to do flatground. And wow I really sucked. I could not do a halfcab flip or fakie big flip easily. Those use to be staples of mine. Argh. I did not feel confident at all and I was super sore. Yeah arthritis. My stubborn ass stuck with it though. Eventually got a few treflips and had some lines with 3 or 4 flippers down the hill. Also got a swtich varial flip going really slow up the hill. Ended with a back 50, called it a day then went home and watched BATB7 with Ollie which was insanely fun to watch.