Iowa City skatepark.  On our drive to Wisconsin we stopped for food in Iowa City.  We randomly drove by the skatepark and I had the family drop me off.  It was hot and humid, I had car legs, and as you can see this skatepark looks like crap.  The bottom of the main crappy bowl area was covered in a film of crap left over from water that apparently occupied the park for awhile.  I pumped around on some stuff getting the legs going then hit the ledges and flatground.  This park might suck but it had over 5 good ledges.  Where you at Team Pain?  I had some noseslides to get going then some crooks.  Out of nowhere did a great run for me.  Front 180 into a bank, halfcab flip on flat, crooks, 360 flip.  I was really hyped.  I posed some hardflips on a mellow backside bank and think I may have gotten closer to figuring out that trick.  Also got front 50 followed by crooks on the little ledge.  Close to front 5-0, as the family pulled up I got a front 50 shove.  Stoked I forced myself to skate the ledges even though they felt tall.  The kid waxing was with a friend.  Neither of them could ollie, but they waxed everything.

Picked up Derek on the way  to the meeting spot Sol.  We were there first so we skated the ramp for awhile.  My first few runs were terrifying.  That ramp hates me.  I would go on to have some mediocre runs with a couple basic tricks in them and got stuck on front ds.  Skated flat and did several treflips with my hands touching the ground.  That seems to be how I do them now.  Derek laughed and giggled his way through lots of tricks.  Front 5-0 to fakie, switch front 5-0, kickflip to fakie and much more.  Carleigh showed and skated a bit too.  She wanted to carve over middle section, but didn’t commit. Riley showed and we left for fort Collins.

Spring Canyon was empty when we got there and I was immediately blown away by how insanely good Derek and Riley were skating.  They were ollieing the kicker to kicker gap so easy in lines.  Dana and his friend Hayden showed as well as a few more dudes.  Seeing Dana skate in person finally was pretty awesome.  He killed it.  Him and Riley fed off each other and Dana got Riley hyped for a big boneless over the door.  Riley pretty much killed everything.  Flatground, ledges, the door.  It was crazy.  Halfcab noseslide nollie heelflip out, pop shove nosegrind, hc noseslide bigspin out.  Derek 180 nose manualed the potato chip which was insane.  Back smith the ledge and a lot more.  Carleigh boardslid the rail, noseslid the ledge, took some photos, loaned me her flash (ha).  I didn’t skate great, but it was fun.  Landed a lot more treflips, some without putting my hands down.  Tried front 5-0 kickflip out for awhile, got kind of close.  Did a line with manual then kickflip on the end of the wide qp.  My new wheels still feel huge and my shoes are too bright.  Oh well.  Fun time, good weather, good crew, good park.