Matt, Jake and I went to Longmont park to meet up with Riley who had just moved back into town. I had done about two kickflips, a front 50 and a front 5-0 before it started raining. Matt had b/s nose grinded the long ledge and did a switch tre as it started raining. Jake bailed a few back 50s in the flow bowl so I knew he wasn’t skating his best. I saw Riley slam on a back 360 over a hip.

We agreed to go to the covered pavillion and we ended up skating flatground there for three hours or so. It was awesome. Especially when we all would hit stop rocks or stop sticks and slam to the ground. No one escaped unscathed. Jake had the toughest time it seemed. He has been landing lots of treflips lately, but not this night. Riley and Scotty played 3 or 4 games of no repeat SKATE that were pretty incredible. Nollie late flips, inward heels, all kinds of tricks. It was so good seeing Riley skate again. Matt tied a ton of switch tres and beat me in a game of SKATE ending with fakie tre. I took a few tries to get tricks, but ended up getting most of my tricks. Kickflip, heelflip, fakie flip, halfcab flip, f/s halfcab flip, fakie bigflip, varial flip, fakie varial flip, nollie varial flip, treflip, nollie treflip, fakie treflip, double flip, b/s flip, some maybe. Man that list doesn’t even sound good considering we skated for 3 hours. Either way I still had a blast and it was great seeing Riley again.

I set up a lovely 8″ board. Jake showed up in the early evening and we went out to skate flatground. The joy of skating an 8″ board again was so incredible. I landed so many tricks first try and everything felt good. There was a kickflip that could have made my night all by itself, but it was joined with multiple treflips and many more flippers. Jake was skating well too. We started a game of SKATE as we waited for Matt. We both landed tricks that can often get us letters. I got Jake and S on a treflip and he got me an S on a fakie treflip (first one I’ve seen Jake do. Nice!) then Matt showed up and we left for Denver.

We went to this spot first. It was covered in debris from the tree so we didn’t skate around too much, mostly just hit this ledge. Matt tried to be a rebel and skate the whole spot at one point and slammed so hard pushing. It was brutal. He still skated good. Manualled the bottom block, back tail, manualled a bit of the top block after a quick up. I landed quite a few back 50s, chinese nollie to front tail, front 5-0s, crooks. Jake had back 50s, fakie front 50 halfcab out. Jake and Matt ollied onto the low block, then the upper block, and did tricks off. Jake did front 180 and tried nollie. I took about 30 minutes longer to get onto the top deck. Got front 180 and landed on back 180, but bailed.

Then we went to the Denver Art Museum. I saw Jake do some manuals across some ledges, ollie a narrow part of a ledge and front board a narrow part. I was having troubles seeing the poorly lit ledges. Jason always used to say I had horrible night vision. I probably don’t see any worse then others, I just am not very good at skateboarding and night vision sounds like a legit excuse. Anyways, geez. I skated kind of slow and slammed on a front board, couldn’t manual a whole ledge. But I did have a fun line of 360 flip, ollie up a ledge, over a little gap to manual the next part. Matt skated the best I’ve seen him skate. It was crazy. He was flying all over the place ollieing ledges, manualling them, nose manualling some. He was skating so hard he even broke his board. It was a Null board so you know he was skating hard because those things never break. Then we went to Black Dots/Cheap Girls which was a blast. I got home at 3:30am. Monday at work sucked extra bad.