After running boards to 303 and Emage, Matt, Dave and I hit downtown Denver. We started here. Well, Matt did with an ollie. Dave wanted to hippie jump it, but didn’t want to try it without being warmed up first. Then we went to the granite wedge/ledge spot nearby. Oh actually we hit a bunch of metal 1″ tall manny pads for a bit. Long enough for me to realize I would not be skating well and slam trying to ollie a 2 foot flat gap ugh. At the granite spot Dave did some front 50s on the weird plastic low ledge and boardslide to fakie up a granite ledge. Matt went buck. Manuals/nose manuals up/down, 5-0’s up down, ollies over a hydrant, treflips. Ripper. I skated horribly and had a very non-confident feeling I couldn’t kick. We got the boot.

Then we ended up here for awhile. Longer then we would have thought. And we did way less slappies then I would have thought. Dave and I both struggled to slappy the middle stair. Maybe we didn’t even land it. Matt front 50’d the middle one easy then front 50’d the top one. We eventually got the boot.

Then we ended up at this neat little spot. We all did wallrides up onto the bench (not the top one we aren’t that good). Matt ollied in from the low ledge and went for the ollie off the top ledge once, but bailed then we got the boot.

We hit some curbs for a bit. Hit the Chase curbs for a bit. Dave and I were frustrated with our skating. I gave up trying to 50 the curbs and tried to manual the long way like Matt was. I kind of did it, but with a couple minor tilts. Dave said it counts for over 40. Sweet. Dave did some manuals to quick ollies. Matt skated fast. Did long manuals and kept having runs cut short by my dumbass standing in the way. Booted.

Tabor center for a brief minute. I struggled with boneless wallride. Matt checked the gram. Dave slashed the bank and almost frontside rode the bank over rail. Some random dude came up to skate and just walked by and didn’t say hi at all. He was a kook. I can say this because I am 100% sure he will never read this. Booted.

Last spot was my favorite black 2 stair spot. Normally it’s a really quick boot, but we got a minute and the timing ended up being pretty good. Matt manualled a corner, kickflipped up the two and once again did not treflip down anything. I did some slow front shoves and kickflips down the far two, ollied up two, back 180’d off two, halfcab flip once going 1mph. Had a funny slam where I ran into the two stair when trying to ollie up it. Tried to line out a switch front 180 down 2 then kickflip up, but couldn’t kf up. Then broke my board on a front shove off the two. Doh. Next try Dave got a switch ollie down that he had been working on for awhile and then we got the boot.

Last spot. I just sat and filmed Dave do a sick boardslide to fakie and Matt do a front tail to fakie. On the way back to the car I pushed switch for several blocks. My car was in sight when I started to think to myself “that’s the longest you’ve pushed switch” then immediately fell down and shot my board into traffic. Perfect.

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