Woke up early to give India a ride to ballet in Denver. Brought my board and randomly called Derek to see if he’d want to meet downtown. I ended up going to pick him up after dropping India off and we skated the Thornton park on 112th. There were a lot of puddles messing up the flow. Derek was kinda chilling, but ripped it. The air to fakie was perfect, first try. He did some funny wallrides to firecracker, pivot fakie a qp, couldn’t butt ride over the rainbow, dude just flows so good. I mostly just did whatever. Had a rewarding line of ollie the ledge into the downhill bank then did a hurricane on the bank to curb. Did some other stuff I was aight with.

Then we went to Northglenn HS. I tried a line of noseslide on the red ledge above, ollie the stupid little gap above, manual the bottom of the big 4 block. Sounds so simple right? But the ollie was so hard due to it being a death trap of cracks and rocks that I only got to the manual attempt a few times. Derek did noseslide 270 shove and back smith. So sick.

Later in the day I went to Southern Hills after setting up an old 8″ board that’s been in my trunk for awhile and was already cracked. It felt pretty good rolling around. I felt more willing to try and do tricks. Did a couple treflips where I actually landed on the bolts rather then the middle of a big board. Then I did a couple treflips where I didn’t land so good and the crack turned into a board in two pieces. Doh. Gonna setup a new 8″!!! Home sweet home!

After work I went to Crisis to do some bidness and meet up with this dude Jeremy from Seattle. JP from Seattle organized the skate date. After hanging at Crisis for quite a long time while it rained then dried out we wen to Broomfield park. There were a lot of puddles in the street, but not much in the bowls. We skated the flow bowl for awhile. Jeremy clearly ripped at tranny and flew around the bowl. I skated alright for me until we went to the ledge area then appeared to forget how to skateboard again. Struggling that bad is frustrating. Front 50s were weird, back 50s, everything. Darin and CJ showed up and that was fun. We skated the Quartapotty for awhile. Darin and CJ did halfcab blunt fakies. So crazy. I got a lot of my tricks and was most happy with a hurricane. Jeremy had some cool early grab variations. Then CJ, Jeremy and I skated the flow bowl for awhile. It was fun. I got some new lines around there and as long as I didn’t touch the coping it seemed like I knew what I was doing in there. I did get a few axle stalls on the pool coping though which was nice considering how long it took me to do them last time I was there. It’s also ironic how much better I skate tranny with Ventures then I do Indys. Makes no sense. I liked how Indys cruised the streets, but not the bowls. Weird huh? Then we skated kind of whatever. I could not land a treflip. Struggled with everything. Got the slowest and ugliest front 50 on the tall brown ledge. CJ was doing them sick. He almost got switch front 50 too. He good.