On Christmas Day I stopped by this old ‘famous’ garage on the way to a big family gathering. Liz and the kids were in the car and they didn’t really mind me taking my time as they weren’t too keen on going to the party. I was really stiff initially as it was pretty cold. I was wearing some new wool slippers I got for Christmas and they were super slippery in my shoes making them very dangerous. It was weird. I quickly got to the point of trying a somewhat long line. Noseslide on the top part of the ledge above, kickflip up a curb, cali grind off (tech!!!), turn around and manual on the sidewalk, front 50 down the ledge. Never got the manual and front 50 together. Only got one front 50 and it wasn’t good. But I only was able to skate for about 15 minutes.

(setup 8.38 null venture wides bones medium bushings spitfire F4 99a 52mm nb# pj stratford 533 brown/gum)

So yeah, since I’m so close to 350 days I really want to get to 350. And then never do another 300+ day goal again. So after walking through 8″ of fresh snow to get some presents for the family I had a few minutes to play in the in-laws garage. I only did a few nollie shoves and some slappy noseslide spins on the stair. Yippee.

Since we were about about to embark on an 8 hour drive to Omaha I went into the garage at 6:30am to do a few brief manuals. And of course it was fun while it lasted. About 5 minutes.

Jack came over after an early morning shift at Que’s. We headed downtown and ended up at the alley little ledge spot. It was fun. I was feeling a little lazy and stuff. I skated poorly enough that I remember being happy about back 50s. I got close to a kickflip back 50 too. Jack rattled off a ton of tricks. Bigspin back tail. B/s shove to back 50. Wallride above the ledge. Pressure flip noseslide maybe?

Then we moved on with the intention of going to the Wells Fargo QP, but there was a cop parked at it. Doh. We met up with new Boulder park guy Josh. We looked at a couple wet spots and then ended up at Arapahoe Ridge and started skating it a little. Jack had done nollie shove manual and almost hippy jump back 50. Josh did a manual I think. I had done a drop done manual. Then some lady “politely” kicked us out.

@jackspanbauer fun times at an old spot.

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Then we ended up here. I parked right by it. It was quite fun. We rattled off some tricks and ended up being here for a long time. Jack did blunt to nosepick, pivot shove nosepick, up to front lip, almost wallride on the electric box and a bunch more. Like Jack, I was pretty tired. I didn’t do any new tricks. Oh, actually transfer to front 50, but that doesn’t really count. I struggled with backside flips and all flip tricks. Ugh. Josh had a lot of fun it seemed and did a bunch of transfer tricks. I’m writing this too much after the fact to remember much about the session. It was fun and great to skate with Jack again. It has been too long.

(Setup 8.38 null venture wides bones medium bushings 52mm spitfire 99a F4 nb# PJ stratford 533 brown/gum)