Flatground Friday! I can never tell when I’m going to skate flatground good. I was mentally hyped on it today, but it became apparent pretty quickly that I wouldn’t land much. It was cold, but not that cold. My board was flat and slippery from the water dunk it took last week. That’s not really much of an excuse, but oh well. So yeah, I went to the hockey rink instead of the gym and skated flatground for about 45 minutes. The rink has a slight slope to it. Going downhill I would try tricks I should be able to land. Going slightly uphill I would try new ones. For a long time I failed at fakie double flips up and treflips down. I gave up on fakie double flips and tried switch varial flip rewinds. Both were close at times, but never that close. I landed on about 50 treflips, but never rode away. Then I randomly started trying varial flip sex changes and they felt close. A few tries later I sketchily rode away from one. Cool! So now I’m only one month behind again. So then I started trying treflips until I landed one. Took like 10 minutes. I was upset. But landing one made everything feel alright.

I met Dave at Boulder ditch after work. Warming up was not fun. I bailed curb high ollies on the regs. I would eventually have fun trying to ollie over the pipe then boardslide transferring back into it. I did a couple other dork around things. I filmed Dave do a couple rad lines. Here’s a screen shot of one. It looks easy to 5-0 that right? It’s not. Not at all.

Then we ate and went to the newish ledge spot at Pearl & 30th. We started slow as we were sore by slappying up the angled part. We looked pretty darn old I reckon. But we stuck with it and had fun. Dave had some really long slappy back 50s, some to tail, slappy crooks, boardslides. I had a few decent frontside slappy 50s, regular front 50s, front 5-0, front 50 180 out, a couple weak crooks and one lousy back 50.