After work I picked up Rob and Dave and we headed to Fort Collins for a MRKT run with benefits. The park was empty when we got there, but it changed quickly. I felt overwhelmed at first and took 4 tries to land a kickflip. Argh. I didn’t really sit back and watch a whole lot so it’s hard to remember everything that went down. Rob did a push to wallride and I took several tries and learned it too. Pretty fun. Dave did a weird version where he took his foot off while on the wall, but put it on the ground. Rob was working on a cool manual curve around on the wedge thing. Steve has too much pop and was doing tricks on the bench. Dave was all over the place doing long lines with manual the little hump, boardslide transfer the spine, etc. Neither Rob or I got clean crooks on the bench. Flatground did not go well for me, struggled with heelflips and treflips. Got one weak front 50 on the bench, but it was my favorite thing of the day because that bench is so tall to me. Almost got nosegrind on the little ledge. Dave got a couple good ones, front 50 body varial out, long back 50s, he was ripping regardless of what he says. Rob had some cool flatground lines going with lots of no complies and shoves. Steve got a back 50 front 180 out.

We stopped by Loveland park on the way back. The park was wet in a lot of space and there were several small town skaters. Rob and Dave didn’t skate. I thought I would want to leave too, but after a couple noseslide 270 shove attempts I started to get hyped. Didn’t land any though. Took awhile to front 50 the tiny hubba. Took awhile to land a kickflip over the wedge, but it was quite fun when I got it. Did several basic tricks on the little qp above the “ping pong table” – Rob. Got a horribly ugly b/s flip over the wedge. I probably would have kept skating, but Rob and Dave looked cold and bored so we took off.

(setup 8.25 null awkward vector, venture lows, bones medium bushings, 3 washers on inside of axles, 51mm stf v2, New Balance Numeric PJ Stratford 533 burgandy/gum)