Another awesome edit from Fullertron.

Got to NorthGLENn park at 10am to be one of the judges for a contest. I messed around for awhile not doing anything serious. John and I tried treflips for awhile. He got one. But we missed most of them. I didn’t get one. Then the beginners started and luckily I wasn’t judging that so I went to the basketball court and skated flat. Landed most everything for awhile and it felt pretty good. Everything except for the treflip of course. I have to admit ever since my last Ventures worn through and I put the PJ ones on again they have felt horrible. Might be the precursor for another change. Then after 7 hours of sitting and judging in the heat with almost no food John and I went to Broomfield for what we hoped would be a mellow session. It turned out that Colorado’s newest pro Tyler Price was there as well as some other Colorado heavy hitters. We mostly skated the black ledge. Those dudes did good tricks. John and I tried front 50 back 180 out until I landed an absolutely horrible one. Man it was good to see Tyler skate. He has been injured, but was still ripping.

Brief flatground in front of the house. Still felt slow and arthritic, but that’s life. Did most of the basics and finally a treflip.

Feeling slightly better I went to Valmont later in the evening. It was still warm. I haven’t been there in awhile. As you can see the ledge isn’t doing so good anymore. I messed around for awhile doing slappy noseslide stuff, trying to get the legs going. They kind of did. The ledge was really sticky though. I waxed it a bunch. It would slide, but grinds were hard. I got one front 50 on the middle section and that was so hard for me. Had a good hc noseslide, some crooks, couple back 50s, weak front tails. A few flip tricks, but never a good treflip. Put a chair after the loading dock and ollied over it (in a line after kickflipping up the curb) which was pretty fun. The dock is taller then the chair and it wasn’t far out, but it was still fun. I skated pretty hard, but was tired and forcing things. Me stubborn, me should not skate so much. Oh well.

Went to the research center after work on a pretty hot evening. My first attempt to ollie up the curb resulted in me running into it and almost slamming. Great. I’m not even sure anymore if it’s actually ‘arthritis’ I have anymore, but basically my whole body feels weird and I have zero confidence. Rather then go home and rest or something any normal person would do I stubbornly kept attempting to skate. I got a couple noseslides to get things going and even manualled the curb around the corner. Got some crooks, front 50, even a back 50 or two, some really short front noseslides. Flip tricks weren’t so good. The treflip eluded me again. Couldn’t do hc noseslide either. There were these two longboards going down the ‘hill’ trying to powerslide. They were such dorks. Made me feel better about myself.