I met Dave, Jake and Fuzz at Broomfield park at 9am. We all did various things to get warmed up. I heckled Jake quite a bit for being young. Which is a complement because he was ripping. I don’t remember much from this part of the day other then it ended by Dave calling out a physical challenge of hitting the double set. And by that I mean ride down the first 3 stair and then the next 3 stair. Dave got it first, Fuzz next, Jake didn’t try it and to no ones surprise I was last. It was quite fun. Oh yeah, I forgot as we left Dave did a kickflip on flat that was not very popped. It made Fuzz laugh hysterically. Getting old is rad. Kind of.

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Then we rolled to this spot in Denver. The ledge we are sitting on was the main point of attraction, but the spot had some other things to offer like a little bank to do tricks into or to manual out of. Jake and I were there first. We got quite a bit of skating in. We each got noseslides, crooks and front 50 on the ledge. But my front 50 was barely, Jake had them easy. I won the race to kickflip into the bank. Had a fun line with a bad ollie up the ledge, kickflip into the bank and then crooks the ledge. I think Jake did that line too. Then Fuzz and Dave showed up. Everyone thought the ledge was tall. Fuzz got 50s both ways, joined Jake with front 5-0 and he did a front smith. Dave had manual followed by front 50. I did a couple 360 flips on flat that felt really fun and I made my goal of 5. Tried to do fakie flip fast enough to land with enough speed to do halfcab flip into the bank. This does not mean I actually had to go fast, it just meant I had to be moving. Dave was kind enough to film Fuzz and Jake for awhile. Fuzz got a line of switch front 180 out of the bank then crooks the ledge. Jake was trying ollie up the loading dock, kickflip into the bank, front 180 nosegrind. He got oh so close. Like 9/10 close. Riley and Garrett showed up and started ripping. They didn’t hit the ledge too much, but ollied up the loading dock easy and did tricking into the bank. Riley switch and regular ollied over a cigarette tube. The rest of the old dudes left, Jack and Carleigh arrived. I played Riley in a game of SKATE even though my legs had pretty much shut down and as expected I lost. This kind of got my legs going again though and I got a couple more crooks and I finally got the fakie bigflip into the bank. Then I gave up and stretched while everyone else got busy on the ledge. Carleigh did noseslides. Jack did some long frontside ones. Riley had back smith and front 5-0 shove. Garrett had front. Then we went around the corner where I just filmed. They all got tricks. It was cool.

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