Met Dave and Rob at 303 shortly after noon. We wanted to try Cheeseman park, but it was mobbed with a wedding party. Tried the North High fountain, but it was full of water. Ended up at the little park off of Dayton. I was really sore to start. Not sure why. It was very warm and sunny. There was only a couple of others at the park. Rob had some rad back 50s on the curb to get things going. We worked up to some lines and whatnot. Dave was doing front 5-0s on the quarterpipe over the ledge so easy and fast. You could tell it was his birthday, he had some extra pep. He had some manuals, nose manuals and 50s on the curb in his runs with big transfers over the qp hips. Rob had manuals, nose manuals, back 50s, noseslides, crooks, front boards, maybe halfcab boardslides too. I had some crooks, couldn’t back 50 the taller ledge or nosegrind the curb, skated slow and awkard, but ended up getting a fun line like Dave did above, except I kickflipped off.

Then we went to this gnarly ditch. It is so much gnarlier then it looks. We met Dave’s friend Dave. We’ll call him Other Dave. Other Dave has skated this a lot and it showed, he was flying down it and would eventually ollie into the deep hip which is so gnarly. Dave cruised it fast too, lots of backside ollies, a sick early grab into the deep hip. As usual I tried some kickflips. Took a long time to get a kickflip to fakie on the mellow part where Dave starts above, but got a frontside flip in a few tries. Rob had a bunch of steezy tail block spins, backside ollies and ended with a nice backside kickflip.

We tried to hit a bowl, but got the boot before getting a carve. Ended up at the Police Bank. It was hot. Really hot and sunny. Rob and I just did a few kickturns. I blew out a bearing so had an added excuse to not skate it. Dave had front rock and the alley oop pivots above. Other Dave did rocks and a front slash that was pretty incredible. A friend of Other Dave’s showed and skated around too. He had an old board from mid-2000s. It was a blast from the past. Advocate board with Venture gold PJ trucks. So sick.

(setup 8.25 null awkward vectors deck, thunder 147 HL stock bushings, 3 washers on inside of axles, 51mm bones stf v1, Es Swifts grey/white)

Went to Safeway ledge on a lazy Saturday around noon with the sole intention of doing one of two tricks for the game of OLDFART. I was thinking front crooks or kick back 50 shove out. I tried kick back 50 more. Landed quite a few sketchy ones without the shove and a 5-0 or two. But never got it clean enough to challenge with. The front crooks took awhile too. I was nowhere close then all of a sudden landed the one above. It made me pretty happy.

(setup 8.25 null awkward vectors deck, thunder 147 HL stock bushings, 3 washers on inside of axles, 51mm bones stf v1, Es Swifts grey/white)