Our macbook died. Well, the hard drive became corrupted and I spent lots of the morning working on it. What a pain. I’m disappointed in Apple for the stupid upgrade path that renders a computer useless. Then Dave and Rob bailed. Carleigh and Jack went to skate parks. I was hoping my body would feel better. As much as I tried to convince myself it was, it wasn’t. I met my old college friend Steve at a bank off Pecos. Upon arriving there I noticed a trailer right in front of the bank. Ugh. You could still skate the mellow part of it so I warmed up with some basics. Oh yeah, I had new Stratfords. Well, not totally new as I’ve skated them before, but I thought 11.5 was too big for me. They felt ok this time around. I did a few variations of kickflips, struggled with varial flips. Steve showed and I was trying 360 flips. I would try them on the steepest part I could fit under the trailer on the approach to. It was pretty fun. I got a couple with my hands down before stomping one that felt amazing. Steve did pop shove to fakie, fakie pop shove and ollies. I added a halfcab flip and we both tried heelflips to fakie. I’ve never done one on a bank. While trying these my legs got stiff and I stopped skating. Then I went to Denver to film Derek. Just pushing to meet him was a chore. He didn’t get his trick. I went home super exhausted and depressed, ate a salad then went to sleep.

(setup 8.25 null venture wides bones medium bushings no washers 52mm null wheels)

Met up with Rob and Dave at Crisis. We hung out for awhile, did bidness and watched some rad old H-Street videos. Then we went to Broomfield park. Almost no one was there. After watching those videos I was some of the most hyped I’ve been in awhile to skate. Unfortunately it didn’t result in me being able to skate worth a shit as I struggled like crazy initially. Rob was keeping it mellow and feeling out his board again. He still did some good boardslides, crooks, manuals, etc. Dave was manualling the steep cement bank like it was nothing. He had a cool dropin on the hubba to the deck of the quartapotty then rolled in. So rad. I had a couple lines around the park that felt cool. Had some f/s ollies on the brick qp that felt neat and crooks up the little escalator ledge. Near the end Dave and I were trying lines starting at the top. He got a long back tail on the hump, boardslide down the rail then nose manual the black box! So good. If only he didn’t slam on the rock fakie after. Ha. I had an ok run of f/s flip on the hump, front 180 into the bank then halfcab noseslide the black ledge. I was trying for halfcab flip on the hump, kickflip into the hip then a f/s 50 shove, but I never got the kickflip into the bank.

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Then we went to Safeway ledge for awhile. It was fun! Rob kept getting the feel back and did some switch boardslides, noseslide 270 and more. I did like 5 or 6 kick back 50s. Tried to do 5-0s a couple times, but only got 50s. Tried back 50 shove and got close. Dave and I both got front tailslides. His was good. Then we did front crooks! Well, I did little ones to fakie where I push off the wall. Dave did the manly one above!

(setup 8.25 null venture wides bones medium bushings no washers 52mm null wheels)

Was exhausted after driving down from the mountains and the sand dunes the day before. My third day off of the year! Did a few manuals in the house where I would setup for kickflip position. Then I watched Johny Dangerously with the Ollie and his friend.