On a gorgeous afternoon I ran some boards to 303 then headed back to Broomfield for a session at Darin’s ramp. I was early though and decided it would be a good time to try back tails at Safeway ledge. Ugh. At first I thought I would have this easy. Did quite a few back tail stalls which is still new enough to me that it felt pretty good. But I have to slide it at least a little for the O-L-D-F-A-R-T challenge so I had to keep going. After awhile it got depressing. Stall after stall, fail after ail. I tried a few switch crooks in there just to mix things up,but for the most part I just went in circles trying to do a back tail with a slide. After a solid hour of this I did finally got one that meets the very minimum requirement for slide. Granted, it slid into a stall, but it felt pretty rad anyway. In multiple decades of skating I have never gotten close to that trick. I might try again before posting this one into the contest, but whew, glad I did one. I might try to actually learn it better over time too.

A photo posted by brianlstrickland (@brianlstrickland) on Mar 15, 2015 at 5:51pm PDT

Then I went over to Darin’s perfect ramp where a small group of dudes were skating. It was rad. Dave kills it so hard. The photo above shows it. It’s impossible to document all of the tricks that Dave did. The beanplant was a sick one, front tailslides, back tailslides, couldn’t beam me on a Texas Plant though, smith grinds, feeble to rock ‘n roll, I don’t know, everything. Strickland was ripping too. Super good beanplant to tail, back smith, almost beanplant to rock fakie. Rad. This other dude was there that slams all the time. I’m so jealous of how he can commit to anything, but man it looks painful. Darin did his tricks good like he does. Back smith, back tail , all of the rock to willy tricks, switch front ds, etc. Dylan showed up and did about 100 tricks in one line that was only 4 walls long. Ha, he packs them in there. I skated mediocre, but had fun. First try front 50 was cool, front smiths, got a bean plant to tail after a million tries, front d to fakie and a weak hurricane on top of my normal tricks. Man it was nice out.