Went to Broomfield park on a sunny and hot day. I was there first. Carleigh, Riley, Bernie, Scotty and Garrett would join later. I started on the quartapotty for awhile then went into the flow bowl. I actually had fun there. Made myself do axle stalls on the pool coping which I haven’t in awhile. Also got some little fs slashes on the mellow part. Everyone else showed up. There was a lot going on obviously so it’s hard to remember what everyone else did. I was unable to nose manual the blue box. Got into several back 5-0s right away, then couldn’t for awhile. Ugh. Bernie was doing his manual thing. Riley was all over the black ledge. Scotty was killing the handplant combos on the brick qp. Carleigh does front disasters really easy on the brick qp, ollies into the bank all steezy and would get a back disaster or two. Garrett skates the whole park really good. Riley, Scotty, Bernie, Garret and I played a game of SKATE. I did alright in it. I think Scotty would go on to win, Riley had to sit out because of hot pocket pain. I did a few tricks on the black ledge. It was so slick. Took a long time to get back 50, well, I didn’t even do 50, I did 5-0. Typical me. I ended by trying to ollie the six stair. It was cool there was this young kid trying it too. Normally that would annoy me, but he was funner then most kids and really positive. I told him if I landed it he had to get my back. I landed it. He took more tries to get it, but man he was hyped! Ha, it was cool. I haven’t ollied a six in awhile so that felt pretty rad. I would love to some day eventually ollie the double set, but it seems so far away.

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Then I drove up to Loveland park to meet Matt. Riley and crew were supposed to follow, but they didn’t. When I first showed up the park was overrun by clueless scooter kids. It was insane. I almost called Matt from the parking lot to suggest we go somewhere else. Matt was killing some big ollies, front lip the bump to granite flat bar, back 50s down the smaller hubba. I started out alright with some boardslides and noseslides, but mostly wasn’t feeling the crowds. It would clear out though. We had fun. We hit the smaller lane in the street section for awhile. I had a couple of pathetic front 50 attempts down the tiny hubba before getting a few. Matt crooked the long hubba. So gnar. Then we mostly hucked over the A frame. I tried b/s flips for awhile and never landed one. Matt may have taken a whole 10 tries before getting a treflip. He had new trucks and wheels so I guess that explains it. He would get a nollie flip as well before I landed a really bad halfcab flip. I was doing some fun early grabs over the small part of a sideways cone. Dorky, but fun. Then I eventually barely landed the fakie bigflip above. It still felt neat. Kind of weird spending so much time at skateparks on a Saturday, but whatever, I had fun.

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

Was cleaning the garage and hucked a few flippers here and there. Basically only tricks that I can’t land. Nollie heel, nollie flip, switch flip and switch heel. Surprisingly the switch heel felt the closest. Tried a few switch b/s flips too. That one seems possible as it’s kind of like switch varial flip.

I worked from home because I had to be on a 7am call. I ended up basically being on the phone for 9 hours straight. I was pretty tired and wanting to skate something other then Valmont, but Dave insisted and didn’t have time to drive elsewhere. Starting out was rough. Really rough for me. I’m not sure why, but I could barely get up the curbs and it took me like 30 minutes before I landed a manual. I added to the fun by taking out the metal grate from the long manny pad to make for some gap/combo options. Dave got manuals and nose manuals way quicker then me, but was struggling with other things. He hucked a lot of 180s out of manuals and stuff which could make for some new manuals soon. He started trying nollie front shove manuals and got one. So rad. I was trying fakie bigspin manuals which I had never done. I had a brief blast of awesome as I landed a nollie big flip then the fakie bigspin manual. I was hyped. Coming the other way I was trying manual to ollie over the huge 1 foot gap (ha) then 360 flip off the curb. I had done a few b/s flips off that felt rad. Dave started trying fakie bigspin manuals and he too came through with it. That’s two new manual tricks for him in one day and one for me. We were hyped. Dave was doing lots of kickflips. I was hucking a lot of flippers and getting close to fakie 3 flips. Dave had to leave and as he was pulling out I finally got the manual to ollie over the gap then a 6 point landing 360 flip off the curb (4 wheels, 2 hands). We counted it. Then it was off to Crisis to see Sabotage 4! It’s a good one.

(setup 8.1 null venture lows 52mm stf v3s nb# pj stratford 533 brown/gum)