Took Ollie and his buddy Otto to Stonehenge on a super nice fall day. I felt pretty sore and tired initially, but started doing some of the fun basics. Front smith and kickflip back axle stall were my favorite. Ollie did the three versions of rocks. None decked. Suck it. Otto pushed around. I started trying kickflip front axle stalls as that is a trick on my list. I started getting kinda close so I posted up my camera. Ollie and Otto were just goofing around, but wanting to go. I finally got one. Not super clean, but I don’t think I’ve ever done that on a bank to curb. Pretty hyped.

Then I dropped the boys off and went to the research center. I started with some noseslides and then crooks. I got a bunch of crooks in a row. I was hyped. Took a bit on halfcab noseslide, got a couple tic tac’y back 50s. I was trying a bunch of treflips before the ledge or switch flips coming back up. Didn’t get close to either. Stupid trefilps. Then I started trying this really long line. There is a little curb cut kicker I hadn’t noticed before at the very top of the hill. I did back 180 on it, switch front 180 a manhole, kickflip, no comply 180, halfcab flip, kickflip up the curb, crooks the ledge, manual. Can’t believe it, but I did it. The kickflip and no comply 180 were really bad, but everything else felt good. I ended the day with a crooks to fakie. I love fall weather.

Met Rob and then Matt on a pretty warm afternoon at the Safeway ledges. I got there first. Actually started out pretty good and got front and back 50s pretty quickly. I was wearing some new insoles. Footprint “Gamechangers”. They felt thicker in the arch then my other orthotics, but thinner up front. Rob showed. Around then I had a really great feeling run of crooks the lower fence ledge, front 5-0 the main ledge then a pretty good feeling backside flip on flat. I was hyped. I also got a front smith and a couple kick back 50s complete with tic tacs. I didn’t skate flat a whole bunch. This was the most I pushed in awhile and at times it still hurt pretty bad. Rob had a nice first try back 180 fakie 50, nollie front 50, fakie nosegrind 180 out, nollie front lip, back 50s and back 50 on the fence ledge. Sick! Matt showed up and after one ollie I yelled that he should do a treflip and of course he did. He had a lot of flatground moves. Switch f/s flip, nollie flip, switch flip, switch tre. Geez. A line with back 5-0 then front tail to fakie on the fence ledge and almost a switch tre in a line. In the end Matt did a fakie 5-0 pop out all steezy. Rob was working on a few. I was trying halfcab crooks. Rob and Matt left, I kept trying. I got a few treflips in a row and eventually got the most over 40 make on a halfcab crook ever. Oh well, I think that’s a new one.

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After setting up for the Crisis art show Matt, Chad and I went to the Broomfield park where nearly everyone in Colorado was. Wow it was crowded. I mostly just dorked around. Had some crooks on the brown box and never really did much else. Riley was destroying the place. Just look at the clip above. Wowsers. Matt tried kick back tails for a solid hour and got a super clean one. I played a game of SKATE with Garrett, Riley and Chad. As you may have predicted I was the first out. Oh well. Then I did boardslide transfers to manual on the brown ledge/bank. Ted was trying boardslide to fakie nosegrind. Bernie was doing kickflip manual twist all over the place on the brown bank. Him and Chad were having fun goofing around together. Then it was time to go to the art show which was a blast. Congrats on 4 years Fuzz!