A photo posted by Null Skateboards (@null_skateboards) on Sep 6, 2015 at 12:41pm PDT

Up early on a Sunday. Was at Dave’s around 7am and we showed up in Loveland before 8am. The family above contributed to some initial negative feelings for the park. We avoided the strett area for awhile because of how lame that family was. The snake run was fun to pump and a little scary. Dave had some grinds at least. Then we messed around on the tree root spine for awhile which was quite fun. Dave had a good halfcab to tail that I couldn’t do. I had the little rock revert that got him. We did standard tail 180 transfers, smith/feeble transfers. Then it got fun with some early grab transfers. I’ve never done that before so it was pretty fun.

Then the street area cleared out and we hit it up. I took awhile to get slappy crooks on the bank to curb. Never got one that I was too hyped on. The quarterpipes are all so steep there. I don’t like that aspect of the park. Dave had a good slappy front 5-0. There is a bump to mini downhill ledge which was a fun warm up. I had a couple front 180s to fakie 50. Dave front 5-0’d down it. We hit the kicker for awhile. Dave had good ollies into the steep side and nollies the other way. I had a really weak b/s flip into the mellow side, halfcab flip and fakie bigflip too. All were fun. The quarterpipes around there are fun for doing lines. Both of us did a lot of different tricks on the qps. Dave had a couple really good back tails. I forced myself to front 50 down the mini hubba. I’m scared of downhill. It has a weird start to it, but I would get a few that felt alright. Noseslides down the longer one were fun too. Dave got busy with some nose manual attempts both ways on the bank to curb area. He would get a really good one coming out of the bank. I did a dumb kickflip to fakie on the escalator bank. Dave had some rad switch crooks on the waxed bank. I did some back 5-0s to fakie. Dave said I didn’t even shuffle out, but I’m not sure I believe him. That was pretty much it. We skated the bowl for a bit. Dave did some of his trick, fakie ollie to layback air. So rad. I didn’t drop in, but I had fun carving around and was getting up the hype to dropin when this funny dude from Brazil came to sweep out the bowl. Decent park, horrible family scooter scene.

(setup 8.1 null venture lows nb# pj stratford 533 brown/gum 52mm sfts that are down into the mid 40s and telling me to setup new wheels)

Went to Broomfield park while India was in ballet. Had about 2 hours to skate. It was sunny and hot. I was feeling better for awhile and was finally able to ollie without groin pain. It took awhile though. Warming up on the quartapotty wasn’t great. Blue ledge stuff wasn’t all that either. I guess I shouldn’t have expected much since I really haven’t ollied much in awhile. I had a run of boardslide the tiny down rail then back 50 the ledge. Also a run of f/s flip on the hump up top then front 50 shove the black ledge. I wasn’t able to get a crooks on the black ledge. Or a front 5-0. Had a good feeling nollie tre on flat. Other flatground felt alright. Tried to do backside nosegrind on the blue ledge for awhile, but only had a couple that were remotely close to locking in. I started to get really sore by the end.

Later that evening I tried nollie heels and nollie flips in my garage. I would commit to nollie heels every try, but they would only flip half way. I landed on another nollie flip with hands on the ground. Still hyped that I’ve made a little progress with that trick.

(setup 8.1 null venture lows 52mm stf v3 nb# pj stratford 533 brown/gum)